She was a woman of luminous intelligence, high ambition and great accomplishment~

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3. If only each of us, like Helen Keller, could leave this earth a better place for our having

lived. Unfortunately in 'murika, right-wing forces control all the levers of power with income inequality mushrooming, high unemployment and under-employment prevailing, tens of millions on food stamps, and tens of millions without access to medical care notwithstanding passage of the ACA, among others, so tens of millions of 'murikans are just trying to survive, all because right-wing forces set the national agenda.