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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
— Helen Keller
Author and disability rights advocate
Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (8 July 1896), quoted in supplement to The Story of My Life
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