Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Kellerwas an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth27 June 1880
CityTuscumbia, AL
CountryUnited States of America
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Things must be felt with the heart.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.
I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.