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It is inspiring to stand before this great audience of the blind and their friends. Is this not an occasion for congratulations and hope—congratulations for what the blind have already accomplished, and hope for braver, more united efforts in the future? I know that the avenues of usefulness open to us are few and straight. But who shall limit the aspirations of the soul or say to us who most need light: “So far shalt thou go, and no farther?” I have a thinking mind and two good hands with which I have groped my way to the frontiers of knowledge. Beyond the frontiers there may be starless night. But if you must go through darkness to a new day, go forth bravely, and the hard journey shall give strength to your feet. Some of us may only stand and wait. But all of us can help ourselves and each other. I am glad to celebrate what the blind can do because their brave accomplishments prove, absolutely prove what people with five senses can do. They show what good servants the brain and the senses can be when they work together. You who see raise your eyes and behold the sun and moon, the earth, the ocean and the faces of men. You who hear have but to open your ears, and they are filled with melody and the voices of your loved ones. We who are blind stretch out our hands and know all the softness of growing things, all the sweet ways of children, all the endearments of human affection. But the senses alone are not enough. It is only when they are united with imagination and thought and feeling that they acquire their full value. You can use your eyes and your ears infinitely more than you have done. You can use them to repair the great disaster of blindness, and indeed nearly all the great misfortunes of mankind. My teacher has told you how I was taught. You have seen how a little word dropped from the hand of another, a ray of light from another soul, touched the darkness of my mind, and I awoke to the sunshine of life. I was blind, now I see; I was deaf, now I hear; I was dumb, now I speak. The hands of others wrought this miracle in me. It was through the hands of others that I found myself, found my mother and father, found the world, found my soul and love and God. Without my teacher I should be nothing. Without you we who are blind should be nothing. None of us are independent. We all live by each other and for each other.

(Based on Helen Keller’s Speech to the Blind of New York City)