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Helen Keller’s Teachings of “The Fight Language” to People Like Her
One of the events leading up to the establishment of the title given to Helen "humanitarian" - Helen visits the Gifu Prefectural School for the Blind. This picture was taken by the Japan Times in 1937.
It is evident that Helen Keller was a strong advocate for women’s rights and disability rights, reasoning to which she used her activism to collect supporters from higher positions in efforts to grant freedom at a faster pace and more successfully.
Corresponding with her Supporters One of the most effective and known ways that Helen gathered supporters was by inspiring people like her. Helen inspired people of all ages, predominantly women, to follow her in the march for rights. Helen was a writer and speaker, as she used her language and strong deliverance to impact the people around her. It is easy to inspire people who can relate to you, especially in a society where what you stand for is overlooked. Helen found higher ranks of success inspiring other disabled people because they were able to understand her more clearly. Although the languages she used were not new or created by herself, she was able to demonstrate and educate to other people with disabilities that language is the foundation to understanding in this world. It is one to hear a person speaking, but it is another to be able to comprehend the message they are delivering . Helen Keller used her disability and her position as a woman to get the government and the people to comprehend and communicate what needed to change. |
As said in the first paragraph of Helen’s Strike Against War Speech, “ I have a word to say to my good friends, the editors, and others who are moved to pity me. Some people are grieved because they imagine I am in the hands of unscrupulous persons who lead me astray and persuade me to espouse unpopular causes and make me the mouthpiece of their propaganda. Now, let it be understood once and for all that I do not want their pity; I would not change places with one of them. I know what I am talking about....They are an overworked, misunderstood class. Let them remember, though, that if I cannot see the fire at the end of their cigarettes, neither can they thread a needle in the dark. All I ask, gentlemen, is a fair field and no favor. I have entered the fight against preparedness and against the economic system under which we live. It is to be a fight to the finish, and I ask no quarter" (Helen Keller).
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