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
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
Things must be felt with the heart.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
The inferiority of women is man-made.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Life is an adventure or nothing
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
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 unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.