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Blind, Deaf and Smart (Original Post) Scuba Jun 2014 OP
compassionate and self-aware socialist, suffragist, author.... loyalsister Jun 2014 #1
Helen Keller was a proud socialist Warpy Jun 2014 #2

loyalsister

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1. compassionate and self-aware socialist, suffragist, author....
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 09:13 PM
Jun 2014

As difficult as things were for her, Helen Keller knew she had advantages that others didn't.

“I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.” -- Helen Keller

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