“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas.”

History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.

Helen Keller was not only a socialist, but a Georgian socialist? Not Gregorian, as the onscreen correction makes clear. She understood the commonality of mankind, that what unites us is inherited while our divisions are learned.

It’s amazing how some of the greatest minds the USA or the world has produced are erased or suppressed while they could be most effective. Not that these ideas aren’t still valuable but what might have been built on them if society had engaged with them at the time?