Helen Keller

Helen Keller was an American author and activist who overcame the challenges of being deaf and blind to become a prominent advocate for people with disabilities.

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

Helen Keller

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."

Helen Keller

"I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."

Helen Keller

"[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."

Helen Keller

"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream."

Helen Keller