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She teaches us the moral that nothing is impossible!!!!
Posted about 1 month ago by Chichano from Addia Ababa , Ethiopia

Here's somebody who didn't let anything stand in her way. More people should be like her in life.
Posted 2 months ago by Chantel W. from Williamsport, PA

This is always an uplifting billboard. She teaches us all.
Posted 3 months ago by Teresa I. from Utah

Helen Keller overcame overwhelming odds to gain her own voice. She had so many qualities we should all aspire to: persistence, courage, and intelligence. It should also not go unmentioned that her teacher, Annie Sullivan, was just as brave.
Posted 6 months ago by Scott C. from New Castle, Indiana

I do really consider this value important. I think when your main objective is to help people there is nothing unreachable or impossible! You have to believe in yourself!
Posted 7 months ago by Elisabet D. from São João del Rei, MG - Brazil

I chose this value because I think it is very important to surpass yourself even if you feel you can´t. I´m sure that sometimes a lot of determination can achieve more than a lot of intelligence and in our century, helping people who have some disability is very important because nurtures our humanity.
Posted 8 months ago by Olalla B. from Galicia, Spain

This billboard is awesome because you can do anything no matter what... Like how Helen Keller achieved in life even though she was blind and deaf....
Posted 9 months ago by Nicole C. from Bakersfield, CA

It must have been hard for her to make it around without seeing or hearing and knowing what's going on. I can't imagine how she made it so far as 88 years.
Posted 9 months ago by Kevin G. from Brookings,Oregon

Helen is a person who believes in her ability and has hope she will be a better person. She wanted to be greater than any other person around her expected.
Posted 10 months ago by Enny W. from Jefferson City

Helen Keller has always been an inspiration to me. She was my H.D project 2008-2009.
Posted about 1 year ago by Summer H. from Minneapolis, MN

Helen Keller inspired and continues to inspire many. She found time to help many people to overcome obstacles in the face of adversity. Thank you Helen.
Posted about 1 year ago by Ryan, H. from Gaithersburg MD, United States of America

She is truly my hero. And though I have so much of my life left to live, I already know the things we need to appreciate. She is an inspiration to people all around the world.
Posted about 1 year ago by Amy P. from Barrie, Ontario

When I was little, I used to always take out the book about Helen Keller that was in my school library. I loved the sign language.
Posted about 1 year ago by Molly M. from Renfrew, ON, Canada

You could not see nor hear yet, because of friends like Anne your entire life changed. You were able to go to college and travel the world. You inspire us all. Thanks for living.
Posted about 1 year ago by Joanna H. from Bay City, Michigan

An intersting quote I once read said, "When the door of opportunity is locked, look for a window." Helen Keller is living proof that this is true and that there is no such thing as impossible.
Posted about 1 year ago by Dana Y. from California

Helen Keller is the one person I look to when I hurt the most. She is my idol, my friend and my inspiration.
Posted about 1 year ago by Mehek M from Orlando

Bless her soul, she was an inspiration to all.
Posted about 1 year ago by Adib M from

This billboard showed up in my area while I was writing a report on her and got me very exicted.
Posted about 1 year ago by Missy C. from Wisconsin

When I close my eyes, I see beauty in all the colors of the Rainbow!
In loving memory of Marc P. Fournier
Posted over 2 years ago by Nakhone K. from Los Angeles, California USA

Helen Keller is such an inspiration to me. When I think of her, tears well up in my eyes. She's just so amazing!
Posted over 2 years ago by Jeannie K. from McMinnville, Oregon USA

What do we have and what can we do with what we have? The abundance of our human potential is found in the answer to this question. What an inspiring demonstration Helen Keller has shown us.

Posted over 2 years ago by Chandra T. from New York, USA

Helen showed the world the light she held despite the darkness she was given.
Posted over 2 years ago by Salma Islam from Dhaka, Bangladesh

Perfect.
Posted over 2 years ago by Morgan A. from Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

I am very inspired by Helen Keller because I am also blind.
Posted over 2 years ago by Simran S. from Bangladesh

A truly marvellous and exceptionally wonderful inspiration to all those people of the world to whom life is not all that rosy. She achieved so much with so little...it's not what we haven't got that counts, but what we do with what we have!
Posted over 2 years ago by Geoffrey A. from Mumbai, India

Really she shows that the strength of the soul does not come from outward accomplishments.
Posted over 2 years ago by Barazae M. from Tanzania

Keller's life shows that there is more to life than meets the eyes.

Posted over 2 years ago by Adeamusat R. from Lagos, Nigeria

Great Example for Many
Posted over 2 years ago by Ashok J. from Visakhapatnam, India

"A peace of mind is not a mind that is not thinking but a mind that thinks successfully"
Posted over 2 years ago by Ndozire K. from Uganda

Thank You very much; knowledge is strength.
Posted over 2 years ago by Matsoha FM from Maseru, Lesotho

Helen's innate desire to get out of her infirmities, made her see, hear and speak... There's always a way for people who have a will...
Posted over 2 years ago by Tess D.J.C. from Saudi Arabia

Hope in the face of adversity gives us strength to face the challenges life presents us with.
Posted over 2 years ago by Steve B. from South Korea

Helen Keller, a hero. What an ispiration to us all!
Posted over 2 years ago by Kenny H. from Louisiana, USA

Her darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence. She showed the world that courage and faith have no boundaries.
Posted over 2 years ago by Gaylord G. from Manila, Philippines

I used to think Blindness was the worst thing, but after my granddaughter was born blind and now is six years old, she has taught me more in life then ever expected. Elliana is a teacher to all who come in contact with her.
Posted over 2 years ago by Teresa I. from Utah

These few lived their lives inspiring many..
Posted over 2 years ago by Cristi B from Kemah,Texas USA

This is real fab...
Posted over 2 years ago by Tanuja K from Maharastra, India

We miss so much when we only view the world with our eyes. It is not enough to look at the world, we must use all our senses to experience life.
Posted over 2 years ago by Wendy G. from Pennsylvania, USA

Foresight

About This Billboard

Helen Keller lived in a world of “white darkness.” Born in Alabama in 1880, she was a year and a half old when a case of scarlet fever or meningitis left her deaf and blind. She made signs and gestures, but her inability to truly communicate often left her a frustrated and angry child. Once she locked her mother in the pantry for three hours, and another time threw her baby sister out of a cradle.

When Helen was seven, her parents hired Anne Sullivan to be Helen’s tutor. Helen learned the manual alphabet and some words, and for a month Helen signed words without knowing what they meant. One day Anne held Helen’s hand under a water pump while signing “water.” Helen suddenly realized that the motions of her fingers had meanings. “That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!” she later said. “There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away.”

During the next decade, Helen worked on sweeping away those barriers. She learned to read Braille, to read lips, and to write in normal script. Eventually she learned how to speak. She attended schools for the deaf and blind, and, later, mainstream schools. It took Helen longer than her classmates to study, but she excelled. She wrote her memoirs, The Story of My Life, at age 21, the first of almost a dozen books during her lifetime. She graduated from Radcliffe College, the women’s counterpart to Harvard University, in 1904: the first deaf and blind person to graduate from a college.

Helen also learned to paddle a canoe, ride a horse and a tandem bicycle, and play chess and checkers. She traveled the country as a lecturer, and until 1922 she even performed in vaudeville shows.

By the age of 24, Helen Keller was already more accomplished and famous than any other deaf and blind person in modern history. But she also had a keen sense of the needs and suffering of others. Having “swept away” her own barriers as much as she could, she began to focus on doing the same for others.

Helen Keller believed in equal rights and economic opportunities for all people. She became involved with the Women’s Suffrage movement, the Socialist movement, and labor unions. In 1917 she founded an organization that would later become Helen Keller International to prevent and treat blindness in impoverished nations. This organization still operates in 23 countries. Helen Keller joined the American Foundation for the Blind in 1924 and advocated for policy and technology to allow the blind to live fuller lives. During her lifetime she traveled to 35 countries on five continents. Her visits inspired blind citizens, but also prompted legal and social changes that improved conditions for them.

Helen Keller died in Easton, Connecticut in 1968, a few weeks short of her 88th birthday. In her life she had reached far beyond her own darkness to shape a more compassionate future for the world. As Senator Lister Hill of Alabama said in her eulogy, “Her spirit will endure as long as man can read and stories can be told of the woman who showed the world there are no boundaries to courage and faith.”