Reply to "Should we be celebrating Helen Keller?"

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I have mixed feelings about this. According to the back of the Alabama state quarter, which has the banner “Spirit of Courage”, it’s not supporting her political views. Everyone has his or her own political views. What it seems the state quarter is trying to depict is her overwhelming difficulties she surpassed. I see the quarter as supporting her courage and nothing else. Having a personal family member who works for the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, I’ve seen first hand the courage that it takes for someone with such multiple disabilities to over come. Socialism and her ACLU founding principles aside, she was a remarkable woman.

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