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
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
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.
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.
Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.
The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart
When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.