Her Socialist Smile

00:00:33 It is Helen Keller who salutes you.

00:04:42 her life-long teacher, Anne Sullivan,

00:06:36 speak in 1913, the experience is altogether different.

00:14:59 in 1908 her teacher, Anne Sullivan, passes along to Helen

00:16:52 the German Workers' Party program argued that

00:19:39 "Helen Keller passing on the merits of the copper strike;

00:23:09 the Party had more than 1,000 of its members elected

00:26:01 "perhaps the most imposing monument to dead ideas

00:29:42 the procession draws some 8,000 marchers,

00:33:31 "and to me, socialism is the ideal cause."

00:42:48 Exiting the school building,

00:45:00 Enthusiastic about the prospect,

00:46:43 "they have tilled the lands of the rulers

00:48:48 Helen Keller maintained a life-long commitment

00:51:10 Known variously as the Industrial Workers of the World,

00:57:47 Oh dear me.

01:01:27 convenes in St. Louis, Missouri.

01:04:20 Helen puts the President on notice.

01:12:52 and particularly about Lenin.

01:14:12 That was the core.

01:15:29 Doesn't mean he believes in it.

01:17:51 accompanying Hitler's rise to power,

01:20:26 and reducing malnutrition worldwide.

01:31:48 I would wish for light in every eye and in every mind.