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
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
Be heroes in an army of construction.
Ideas without action are useless.
Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
I have found life so beautiful.
A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."
Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.