"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."
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"Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land."
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"There's only one story, the story of your life."
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"Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people."
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"The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision."
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"Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all."
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"My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do."
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"For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified."
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"I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend."
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"I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical."
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"Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail."
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"Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced."
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"I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come."
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"If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows."
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"Be heroes in an army of construction."
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"Words are the mind's wings, are they not?"
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"The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart."
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"Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places."
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"The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision."
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"The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves."
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