"I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."
Helen Keller was an American author, lecturer, and disability rights advocate who became deafblind in infancy. She was the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her life and education with Anne Sullivan became internationally known through her writings and public advocacy.