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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Helen Adams Keller
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What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?
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How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
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The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
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The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.
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Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
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The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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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.
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For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.
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The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
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What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.
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Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
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Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
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Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
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