"There is just one way to make sure of immortality. And that is to love this life and live it as richly and helpfully as we can."
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing"
"I do not like the world as it is. So I am trying to make it a little more as I want it to be."
Helen Keller
(1880-1968)
"An illness in early childhood left Helen Keller deaf and blind. Unable to communicate, impossible to communicate with, she was completely shut off from the world around her. Keller was six years old when her bleak existence changed profoundly: Anne Sullivan entered her world and began to teach her how to communicate through 'finger-spelling."
The isolated, temperamental child became a voracious learner and was the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college.She energetically devoted her life to helping others, giving speeches all over the country and the globe, and used her unique experience to bring international attention to the plight of the blind."
"In 1912 she supported Margaret Sanger in her fight for women's legal access to birth control. An avid pacifist, Keller participated in a 1914 peace-for-Europe demonstration with the Women's Peace Party, afterward giving a speech at Carnegie Hall. She openly supported the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies), and she wrote scathing articles against John D. Rockefeller after a deadly conflict between strikers and the National Guard took place at one of his mines. In 1917, much to the chagrin of her Confederate-friendly family (her father had been a captain in the Confederacy during the Civil War), Keller donated money to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.In 1918, she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union."
From Helen Keller by Aimee Hess. Washington, DC: Pomegranate Communications, 2006. A book in the Library of Congress' Women Who Dare series.
The Perfect Man, Prince Charming and the Perfect Woman were in a jeep crossing the desert. They had a flat tire and, when they went to change it, they discovered that there was no spare. Who saved the day?
It was the Perfect Woman. The other 2 were fictional characters.
Hey Federal Employees.
Are you being furloughed like a sacrificial lamb going to the Republican Party austerity orgy? Click here for Aloha State comedian Frank DeLima's parody written when Hawaii Public School employees experienced
