Notes, Notings, and Common Refrains

Old ideas tee-shirt by Chimerigons
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Today, Helen Keller is known as the wild child who was rescued from darkness and isolation by her governess. But during her lifetime, Keller was highly respected as a social activist, writer, and leader.

This shirt features a quote from her editorial "Why Men Need Woman Suffrage," first published in the Socialist paper The New York Call, on the eve of World War 1 (now in the public domain): "old ideas are up a tree ... scurrying away before the advance of their everlasting enemy, the questioning mind of a new age."

Times are changing once again, Helen Keller's words remind us to keep questioning, and to keep challenging old bigotries.

The new illustration for this quote, in black and white line drawing, features two skeletal monsters, with birds' heads and feet, clinging to a dead tree while two hounds, with question-mark spots on their sides, are in close pursuit.
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