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 KellerMots clés rich capitalism class socialism poor 1911 prescient
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Helen KellerBlindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.
Mots clés inspirational women-s-rights
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
Helen KellerIn a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.
Helen KellerMots clés words reading books literature
True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose
Helen KellerThere is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
Helen KellerMots clés inspirational-attitude
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
Helen KellerMots clés loss suffering grief bereavement
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen KellerMots clés adversity
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
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