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81 " 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. "
― Helen Keller , Rebel Lives: Helen Keller
82 " I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts! "
83 " No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit "
― Helen Keller
84 " Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. "
85 " The day is ours, and what the day has shown. "
― Helen Keller , The Story of My Life
86 " i also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating. "
87 " Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhilarating madness! For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine! "
88 " I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle. "
― Helen Keller ,
89 " One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier. "
90 " 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 , Midstream: My Later Life
91 " The highest result of education is tolerance "
92 " It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. "
93 " I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. "
― Helen Keller , To Love This Life: Quotations By Helen Keller
94 " Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. "
95 " Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. "
96 " The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. "
97 " Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. "
98 " Knowledge is love and light and vision. "
99 " To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. "
100 " What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. "