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* ''Literature/OufOfTheDark'' (series of essays), 1913.

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''Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.''

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* SheAlsoDid: [[GoodIsNotDumb Far from the floaty, unearthly image]] in which she has been portrayed, she was [[https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller idealistic but by no means naive]]. She was a fervent [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] and a supporter of UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs, the IWW, and the philosophy of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism Georgism]]. She spoke up for universal health care and for [[TheSuffragette women's voting rights]]. She was an early member of the NAACP, scandalizing her very proper Southern family.[[note]]Her father, the editor of the Tuscumbia, Alabama newspaper, once assured a visitor "We never think of our black servants as human beings."[[/note]] A devout member of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism), she believed that Christianity meant working to make this world better as well as faith in an afterlife. She also had [[https://www.afb.org/about-afb/history/helen-keller/books-essays-speeches/war/strike-against-war-delivered-womens-peace strongly antiwar views]] and spoke out against the many wars during her lifetime. Less positively, Keller endorsed eugenics, believing that infants with severe physical and mental deformities should be euthanized at birth to prevent what she saw as a FateWorseThanDeath for them.

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* SheAlsoDid: [[GoodIsNotDumb Far from the floaty, unearthly image]] in which she has been portrayed, she was [[https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller idealistic but by no means naive]]. She was a fervent [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] and a supporter of UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs, the IWW, and the philosophy of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism Georgism]]. She spoke up for universal health care and for [[TheSuffragette women's voting rights]]. She denounced capitalism and income inequality, walked picket lines, and repeatedly pointed out the nexus of disability and poverty. She co-founded the ACLU to protect striking workers. She was an early member of the NAACP, scandalizing her very proper Southern family.[[note]]Her father, the editor of the Tuscumbia, Alabama newspaper, once assured a visitor "We never think of our black servants as human beings."[[/note]] "[[/note]]

A devout member of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism), she believed that Christianity meant working to make this world better as well as faith in an afterlife. She also had [[https://www.afb.org/about-afb/history/helen-keller/books-essays-speeches/war/strike-against-war-delivered-womens-peace strongly antiwar views]] and spoke out against the many wars during her lifetime. Less positively, Keller endorsed eugenics, believing that infants with severe physical and mental deformities should be euthanized at birth to prevent what she saw as a FateWorseThanDeath for them.
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* SheAlsoDid: [[GoodIsNotDumb Far from the floaty, unearthly image]] in which she has been portrayed, she was [[https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller idealistic but by no means naive]]. She was a fervent [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] and a supporter of UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs, the IWW, and the philosophy of Georgism. She spoke up for universal health care and for [[TheSuffragette women's voting rights]]. She was an early member of the NAACP, scandalizing her very proper Southern family. A devout member of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism), she believed that Christianity meant working to make this world better as well as faith in an afterlife. She also had strongly antiwar views and spoke out against the many wars during her lifetime. Less positively, Keller endorsed eugenics, believing that infants with severe physical and mental deformities should be euthanized at birth to prevent what she saw as a FateWorseThanDeath for them.

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* SheAlsoDid: [[GoodIsNotDumb Far from the floaty, unearthly image]] in which she has been portrayed, she was [[https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller idealistic but by no means naive]]. She was a fervent [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] and a supporter of UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs, the IWW, and the philosophy of Georgism.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism Georgism]]. She spoke up for universal health care and for [[TheSuffragette women's voting rights]]. She was an early member of the NAACP, scandalizing her very proper Southern family. [[note]]Her father, the editor of the Tuscumbia, Alabama newspaper, once assured a visitor "We never think of our black servants as human beings."[[/note]] A devout member of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism), she believed that Christianity meant working to make this world better as well as faith in an afterlife. She also had [[https://www.afb.org/about-afb/history/helen-keller/books-essays-speeches/war/strike-against-war-delivered-womens-peace strongly antiwar views views]] and spoke out against the many wars during her lifetime. Less positively, Keller endorsed eugenics, believing that infants with severe physical and mental deformities should be euthanized at birth to prevent what she saw as a FateWorseThanDeath for them.
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* SheAlsoDid: [[GoodIsNotDumb Far from the floaty, unearthly image]] in which she has been portrayed, she was [[https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller idealistic but by no means naive]]. She was a fervent [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] and a supporter of UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs and the IWW. She spoke up for universal health care and for [[TheSuffragette women's voting rights]]. She was an early member of the NAACP, scandalizing her very proper Southern family. A devout member of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism), she believed that Christianity meant working to make this world better as well as faith in an afterlife.

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* SheAlsoDid: [[GoodIsNotDumb Far from the floaty, unearthly image]] in which she has been portrayed, she was [[https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller idealistic but by no means naive]]. She was a fervent [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] and a supporter of UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs, the IWW, and the IWW.philosophy of Georgism. She spoke up for universal health care and for [[TheSuffragette women's voting rights]]. She was an early member of the NAACP, scandalizing her very proper Southern family. A devout member of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism), she believed that Christianity meant working to make this world better as well as faith in an afterlife.
afterlife. She also had strongly antiwar views and spoke out against the many wars during her lifetime. Less positively, Keller endorsed eugenics, believing that infants with severe physical and mental deformities should be euthanized at birth to prevent what she saw as a FateWorseThanDeath for them.
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She was also a fervent [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] and a supporter of UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs and the IWW. She spoke up for universal health care and for [[TheSuffragette women's voting rights]]. She was also an early member of the NAACP, scandalizing her very proper Southern family. A devout member of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism), she believed that Christianity meant working to make this world better as well as faith in an afterlife.

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* SheAlsoDid: [[GoodIsNotDumb Far from the floaty, unearthly image]] in which she has been portrayed, she was [[https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller idealistic but by no means naive]]. She was also a fervent [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] and a supporter of UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs and the IWW. She spoke up for universal health care and for [[TheSuffragette women's voting rights]]. She was also an early member of the NAACP, scandalizing her very proper Southern family. A devout member of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism), she believed that Christianity meant working to make this world better as well as faith in an afterlife.

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''Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.''



She was also a fervent [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] and a supporter of UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs and the IWW. She spoke up for universal health care and for [[TheSuffragette women's voting rights]]. She was also an early member of the NAACP, scandalizing her very proper Southern family. A devout member of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism), she believed that Christianity meant working to make this world better as well as faith in an afterlife.



* ''Literature/TheFrostKing''
* ''Literature/TheStoryOfMyLife'' with Sullivan and UsefulNotes/JohnMacy
* ''Literature/TheWorldILiveIn''
* ''Literature/OufOfTheDark'' (series of essays)
* ''Literature/LightInMyDarkness'' (originally ''My Religion'')

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* ''Literature/TheFrostKing''
''Literature/TheFrostKing'', 1892.
* ''Literature/TheStoryOfMyLife'' with Sullivan and UsefulNotes/JohnMacy
UsefulNotes/JohnMacy, 1902.
* ''Literature/TheWorldILiveIn''
''Literature/TheWorldILiveIn'', 1908.
* ''Song of the Stone Wall'', an epic poem, 1910.
* ''Literature/OufOfTheDark'' (series of essays)
essays), 1913.
* ''Literature/LightInMyDarkness'' (originally ''My Religion'')
Religion''), 1927.

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880-June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first blind-deaf person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. With the help of her mentor, UsefulNotes/AnneSullivan, she was able to overcome challenges and worked as an advocate for people with disabilities.

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880-June 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first blind-deaf person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. With the help of her mentor, UsefulNotes/AnneSullivan, she was able to overcome challenges and worked as an advocate for people with disabilities.



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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880-June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first blind-deaf person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. With the help of her mentor, UsefulNotes/AnneSullivan, she was able to overcome challenges and worked as an advocate for people with disabilities.

She died in 1968 at the age of 87.

!Books she had written
* ''Literature/TheFrostKing''
* ''Literature/TheStoryOfMyLife'' with Sullivan and UsefulNotes/JohnMacy
* ''Literature/TheWorldILiveIn''
* ''Literature/OufOfTheDark'' (series of essays)
* ''Literature/LightInMyDarkness'' (originally ''My Religion'')

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* ''Film/Deliverance1919'': A silent film she appeared in.
* ''Film/TheMiracleWorker'': portrayed by Creator/AnneBancroft.

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