“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.” —… Continue reading Helen Keller Quote
Helen Keller
Helen Keller Quote
“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.” — Helen Keller Source: from a letter published in the Manchester Advertiser, 3 March 1911
Helen Keller Quote
“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.” — Helen Keller Source: from the 1908 book The World I Live In, Part VIII, The Five-Sensed World
Helen Keller Quote
“The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.” — Helen Keller Source: from the 1908 book The World I Live In, Part VIII, The Five-Sensed World
Helen Keller Quote
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” — Helen Keller Source: from a speech given at a meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1896