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Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School

By Olivia B. Waxman — 2020

Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak. However, there is still a great deal about her life and her accomplishments that many people don’t know.

Read on time.com

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Full Spectrum Leadership for Engaged Action (Nina Simons, Bioneers)

Leadership and women's issues deﬁne the primary current interests of Nina Simons. In her writings and teaching, she establishes a close relationship between the two interests.

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It’s Not About Love After All | angel Kyodo williams | TEDxWashingtonSquare

Rev. angel Kyodo williams notes, “Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”

angel Kyodo williams

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“Be the Change”—His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Inverness, Scotland

His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s public talk “Be the Change” given at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, Scotland, on June 23, 2012. Following the public talk there is a question and answer session.

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Oprah Says Her Conversation with Sister Joan Was a “Wake-Up Call” | Super Soul Sunday | OWN

If you're feeling angry about the daily barrage of negative news in our disconnected culture, author and activist Sister Joan Chittister says we all have to ask ourselves: "What are we going to do about it?" Here, Oprah reveals why Sister Joan's advice was a wake-up call for her.

Joan Chittister

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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript.

Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword), Vincent Harding (introduction)

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Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World

Tibet is more than its mountains, its monks, and its martyrs.

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An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical Edition

In the mid-1920s, prompted by a “small, still voice” that encouraged him to lay bare what was known only to him and his God, Mohandas K. Gandhi began writing and publishing his autobiography.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

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