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
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.
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.
Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live ...
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.