Helen Keller Quotes
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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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Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.
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With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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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.
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Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
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The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
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My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.
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The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.
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The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
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While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.