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Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer. she authored 13 books, wrote countless articles, and devoted her life to social reform.

Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her parents were Kate Adams Keller and Arthur Keller, the captain of the Confederate army Colonel. The family lost most of its wealth during the Civil War and lived modestly.

At the age of 19 months, Helen became deaf and blind as a result of an unknown illness, perhaps rubella or scarlet fever. She learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a student, she wrote The Story of My Life.

An active and effective suffragist, pacifist, and socialist (the latter association earned her an FBI file), she lectured on behalf of disabled people everywhere. She also helped start several foundations that continue to improve the lives of the deaf and blind worldwide.

As a young girl Keller was obstinate, prone to fits of violence, and seething with rage at her inability to express herself. She was examined by Alexander Graham Bell at the age of 6. As a result, he sent to her a 20-year-old teacher, Anne Sullivan (Macy), from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, which Bell’s son-in-law directed.

This event of her life Keller declares "the most important day I remember in all my life." Sullivan remained with Keller from March 1887 until her own death in October 1936.

Keller's childhood training with Sullivan was described in William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker (1959), which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 and was later made into a movie (1962) that won two Oscars.
Lebensjahre: 27 Juni 1880 1 Juni 1968

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Anna Osipovahat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Tagen
The editors are so kind that they are no doubt right in thinking that nothing I have to say about the affairs of the universe would be interesting. But until they give me opportunity to write about matters that are not-me, the world must go on uninstructed and unreformed, and I can only do my best with the one small subject upon which I am allowed to discourse.
Anna Osipovahat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Tagen
He pressed close to me, as if he were fain to crowd himself into my hand. He loved it with his tail, with his paw, with his tongue. If he could speak, I believe he would say with me that paradise is attained by touch; for in touch is all love and intelligence.
Anna Osipovahat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Tagen
The blind are not supposed to be the best of guides. Still, though I cannot warrant not to lose you, I promise that you shall not be led into fire or water, or fall into a deep pit. If you will follow me patiently, you will find that "there's a sound so fine, nothing lives 'twixt it and silence," and that there is more meant in things than meets the eye.

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