"Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows."
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"Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed."
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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
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"Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it."
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"The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease."
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"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."
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"If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation."
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"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream."
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"The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character."
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"Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself."
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"It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing."
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"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward."
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"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
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"The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good."
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"I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world."
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"To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see."
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"I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings."
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"What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same."
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"While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities."
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"Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind."
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