WHEN DISABILITY FINDS STRENGHT TO DO MORE!

Disability may be a disorder that could make a person  miserable in life, but we have had stories of people who look over their problems and challenges and still reach the sky, defying all odds against them. I wonder, if people with disabilities can do extra ordinary things then those who are complete can in such a great way only if we believe!
Believe is one thing that can drive a persons passion to go above his limitations; this believes will now translate to faith, and when faith now grows, it will bring a resurgence, in the actualizing of great dreams that will then come to reality. What are your challenges today? What are does things you think you can not do simply because you are faced with what I will call "your challenge"? Let me share with you one of the world's most notable personality and see how she was able to go on and achieved greatness in her time. No wonder the good book"the Bible" said " If in time of adversity we stumble, it means that our faith is small, but it was the opposite for this brave and courageous woman, whom am about to introduce to you. please, read on !

   

Helen Keller - (1880 - 1968) - Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf/blind person to graduate from college. She was not born blind and deaf; it was not until nineteen months of age that she came down with an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which could have possibly been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities amid numerous other cause.

She was a prolific author, Keller was well-traveled, and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She was a member of the Socialist Party of America and the industrial workers of the world, known as “wobbliest” she campaigned for women's suffrage, workers rights, and socialism, as well as many other left-wing politics causes.

HER POLITICAL DYNASTY

Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. She was a suffragist, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a radical socialist and an American  birth control league supporter. In 1915 she and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920 she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller traveled to over 39 countries with Sullivan, making several trips to Japan and becoming a favorite of the Japanese people. Keller met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain. Keller and Mark Twain were both considered radicals at the beginning of the 20th century, and as a consequence, their political views have been forgotten or glossed over in popular perception. How amiable she is a person of passion for what she believes in, and a keen interest in seeing her dream come through! An old soldier, with a never say die spirit. When a person derives joy in that thing that he/she loves doing best it will become an all consuming desire that will be too hard to break, this was the case with Madam H. Keller.

HER DOGGEDNESS

Keller was a member of the Socialist Party and actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921. She supported Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs in each of his campaigns for the presidency. Newspaper columnists who had praised her courage and intelligence before she expressed her socialist views now called attention to her disabilities. The editor of the Brooklyn Eagle wrote that her "mistakes sprung out of the manifest limitations of her development." Keller responded to that editor, referring to having met him before he knew of her political views: As I round up this great article, I want to leave you with her heart touching responses!

"At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him...Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent."

"I was appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune beyond human control, found that too much of it was traceable to wrong industrial conditions, often caused by the selfishness and greed of employers. And the social evil contributed its share. I found that poverty drove women to a life of shame that ended in blindness."

This was after she joined the Industrial Workers of the World, known then as IWW between 1916 and 1918.

Knowing your purpose in life is a great motivation, but i want to let you know that what ever you pass through in life, you are not alone, as God has deposited in you great substance and potentials to achieve great that not even, this like disability can stop you! Remember " No man, trying to achieve greatness and success, counting steps backward", you are made for the top!

Till i come your way again, remain bless, as you go and write your scripts on the wall of fame!