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I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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Birth: | 27th June, 1880 |
Death: | 1st June, 1968 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Activist, Author, Lecturer |
Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA. She was an American author, activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971. She wrote several books include: The Story of My Life(autobiography), Optimism, The World I Live In, The song of the stone wall, Out of the dark, Light in My Darkness, Midstream: My Later Life, Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy, and The World I Live In and Optimism.
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