Helen Keller
“I Am Your Opportunity”
“It is because my teacher learned about me and broke through the dark, silent imprisonment which held me that I am able to work for myself and for others.
“It is the caring we want more than money.
“The gift without the sympathy and interest of the giver is empty.
“If you care, if we can make the people of this great country care, the blind will indeed triumph over blindness.
“The opportunity I bring to you, Lions, is this: To foster and sponsor the work of the American Foundation for the Blind. Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness; no little deaf, blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided?
“I appeal to you, Lions. You who have your sight, your hearing You who are strong and brave and kind. Will you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in this crusade against darkness?
“I thank you.”