Helen Keller Quotes - Page 18

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

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  Giving, Damn, Radical

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

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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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• Is love the sweetness of flowers?

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  Flower, Sweetness

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.82, Modern Library

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• Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

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  Angel, Smell, Fallen

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• Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

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  War, Roots, Modern

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• Smell is a fallen angel.

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  Angel, Smell, Fallen Angels

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• When one doors closes, another door opens.

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  Doors, Insightful

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

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  Men, Errors, Rights

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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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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• I have found life so beautiful.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Attitude, Found

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• My friends have made the story of my life.

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  Healing, Scrapbooking, Stories

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.85, Om Books International

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• I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

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  Thinking, Enlightenment, Degrees

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

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• 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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• 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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• The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

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  Inspirational, Agony, Our World

  "Let Us Have Faith".

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

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  Education, Stones, Wealth

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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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• 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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• My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. 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.

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  Two, Optimism, Facts

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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