Helen Keller Quotes - Page 18

• 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.

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  Lynching, White, America

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.96, American Foundation for the Blind

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• A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

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  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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• 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.

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  Children, Guarantees, Taught

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• When one doors closes, another door opens.

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  Doors, Insightful

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• I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.

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  Country, Struggle, Fate

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• Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

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  Heart, Optimism, Facts

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Law

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Children, Men

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

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  Education, Stones, Wealth

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• Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

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  Courage, Wavering, Spirit

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1904). “The story of my life”

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• I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.

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  Light, Nighttime, Buddy

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• No nation is wise enough to rule another.

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  Wise, Imperialism, Enough

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

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  Book, Remember, Has Beens

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

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  Children, Real, Thinking

  "The Story of My Life".

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• I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

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  Valleys, Trouble, Infinite

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

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  Stars, Wagons, Doe

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.163, Om Books International

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• Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.

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  Uplifting, Morning, Heart

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.141, Book Tree

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• Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

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  Dog, Giving, Silence

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• Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that 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.

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  Men, Self, Perfection

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.111, Matthew Gordon

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• I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

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  God, Heart, Eye

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

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  Stupid, Mean, Bores You

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

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  Vanity, Mind, Vexation

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

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  Wise, Issues, Justice

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

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  Sunset, Mean, Sky

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• There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.

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  Bible, Regret, Thinking

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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