|  Helen Keller Gifts
Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880. It wasn’t until she was nineteen months old that she contracted a disease—possibly scarlet fever or meningitis—which left her deaf and blind. At age eight, she attended the Royal Institute for the Blind. Six years later, she and her dear friend teacher, Anne Sullivan, moved to New York City where Helen attended the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. After her education there, Helen was accepted to Radcliffe College in 1900. She graduated in 1904, magna cum laude. She was very politically active, advocating women’s suffrage, workers’ rights, and other progressive causes. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968. She was the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college.
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
"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."
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." |
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