Helen Keller Quotes
World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
Keller, Helen. Helen Keller's Journal, 1936-1937. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938.
The veracity depends on how one defines a democracy. Serbia attacked Croatia and Bosnia—all fledgling democracies. Argentina, claiming to be a democracy, attacked England by invading the Falkland Islands. Hitler was elected in Germany in a free and fair election, and once they started their aggressive war Germany became a Fascist Dictatorship. What appears to be the case is that stable industrial democracies never make war on each other.
In the play the two characters are a Russian and American disarmament negotiator:
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and hearing after a bout of illness at the age of nineteen months. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan, who taught her language, including reading and writing; Sullivan's first lessons involved spelling words on Keller's hand to show her the names of objects around her. She also learned how to speak and to understand other people's speech using the Tadoma method. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, she attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She worked for the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) from 1924 until 1968, during which time she toured the United States and traveled to 39 countries around the globe advocating for those with vision loss.
