Be happy. Talk happiness.
When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.
If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn’t feel so all alone.
I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.
Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.
When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one’s brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
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.
I think the degree of a nation’s civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America’s future.
Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.
Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.