746 Quotes by Helen Keller

The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate & special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the suposition that every child is an idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself...

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.