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I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

Helen Keller
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

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True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

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One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles…

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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

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Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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