Helen Keller Quotes - Page 16

• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Agency, Principles

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.97, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Optimism, Festivals

  Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.29, The Floating Press

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• We should respect all people.

  Helen Keller

  People, Should

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• Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

  Helen Keller

  Empty, Stomach, Company

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• Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Hero, Army, Construction

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

  Helen Keller

  Spiritual, Giving, Joy

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

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• The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Sight, People, Vision

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• Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

  Helen Keller

  Real, Mean, Men

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.68, Matthew Gordon

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• When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

  Helen Keller

  Positive, Doors

  "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.

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• My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

  Helen Keller

  Wonderful Friends, Interesting, Has Beens

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• God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

  Helen Keller

  God, Men, Dominion

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

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• Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

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  Failing, Globalization, Chiefs

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• I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Heart, Doors

  Helen Keller (1903). “Optimism, My Key of Life”

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• I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.

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  Philosophical, Eye, Smell

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Your success & happiness lies in you.

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Success Happiness

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• I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

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  Eye, Night, Light

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• When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

  Helen Keller

  Brain, Mind, Use

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.56, 谷月社

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• The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

  Helen Keller

  Army, Want, Profit

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

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• The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, People, Joy

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

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• He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

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  Age, Spirit, Widowers

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• It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

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  Heart, Sometimes, Pleasure

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

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• What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

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  Men, Twenties, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.69, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

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  Good Friend, Walks

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• Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Men, Self

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

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• I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

  Helen Keller

  Giving, Damn, Radical

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

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