Helen Keller Quotes
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The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
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Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
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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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The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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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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Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
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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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When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
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I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
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The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.