"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
-Helen Keller
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Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
-- Helen Keller

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
-- Helen Keller

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"I regret this war, but I never regretted the blood of the thousands spilled during the French Revolution. And the workers are learning how to stand alone. They are learning a lesson they will apply to their own good out in the trenches. Generals testify to the splendid initiative the workers in the trenches take. If they can do that for their masters you can be sure they will do that for themselves when they have taken matters into their own hands." --#HelenKeller
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https://archive.iww.org/history/library/HKeller/why_I_became_an_IWW/

"Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

YK tunnusti kansainvälisen kuurosokeuspäivän

Kansainvälistä kuurosokeuspäivää vietetään jatkossa 27. kesäkuuta, Helen Kellerin syntymäpäivänä.

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Today, the United Nations officially recognised June 27th as the International Day of Deafblindness. The WFD has supported the hard advocacy work of the World Federation of the Deafblind (WFDB). We celebrate this new recognition of deafblind people who are part of deaf communities around the world.

Why June 27th?
The date of 27 of June has been chosen to commemorate the birth of Helen Keller in 1880, a renowned figure in the deafblind community. The deafblind community already commemorates this day using it to remind the world that the deafblind community exists and must be visible. The last week of June is also recognized as Deafblind International Awareness Week. The importance and contributions of the deafblind community globally are highlighted through various events, manifestations, conferences and exhibitions.

https://wfdeaf.org/un-recognition-of-the-international-day-of-deafblindness/

Today in Labor History June 2, 1919: Anarchist Galleanists carried out a series of 9 coordinated bombings across the Eastern United States. They damaged the homes of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, as well as then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. They also targeted a number of judges. None of the targeted men died, although a night watchman, a former editor of the Galleanist publication “Cronaca Sovversiva,” did accidentally get killed. The bombs were delivered in packages that included the following note: “War, Class war, and you were the first to wage it under the cover of the powerful institutions you call order, in the darkness of your laws. There will have to be bloodshed; we will not dodge; there will have to be murder: we will kill, because it is necessary; there will have to be destruction; we will destroy to rid the world of your tyrannical institutions.”

The response by Palmer included mass illegal search and seizures, unwarranted arrests and the deportation of several hundred suspected radicals and anarchists. He also carried the nationwide witch hunts known as the Palmer raids in November 1919 and January 1920, arresting 10,000 anarchists, communists, and labor leaders, imprisoning 3,500, and deporting 556, including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was founded in response to the raid, by IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Helen Keller, and others.