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, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
Your success and happiness lie in you.
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
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.