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The Conservation Of Eyesight
Our worst foes are ignorance, poverty, and the unconscious cruelty of our commercial society. These are the causes of blindness; these are the enemies which destroy the sight of children and workmen and undermine the health of mankind. So long as these enemies remain unvanquished, so long will there be blind and crippled men and women....
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Title: The Conservation Of Eyesight
From: Out Of The Dark
Creator: Helen Keller (author)
Date: 1920
Format: Article
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, New York
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.185-187
Keywords: Accident; Advocacy; Blind; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Disease; Helen Keller; Labor; Massachusetts; Medicine; Prevention; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Venereal Disease; Work
Topics: Social Movements & Advocacy
Note: Address at a meeting of The Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind, Boston, February 14, 1911.


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