But Still I Am One

Edward Everett Hale once said this now famous quote "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." What some do not realize that in this quote he was speaking of his cousin Helen Keller.

Helen Keller was born healthy, but at the age of eighteen months she came down with a sickness that left her both Blind and Deaf, and up until Anne Sullivan Macy came, she was locked into a world of silence and darkness, but with Anne Sullivan Macy came an awakening, this woman who was nearly blind herself reached to this once wild little girl and saw something inside her.

Helen Keller would become the first blind deaf women to go to College, and not just any college, Radcliffe College, the sister college to Harvard. Despite being blind and deaf she would give speeches, act in movies when they were still new, and she would fiercely advocate for those with disabilies.

This remarkable woman saw the world with her fingertips and used those very fingertips to make an impact that lasts today.

After Anne Sullivan Macy died, another woman named Polly would become her guide through the later years of her life, but perhaps it is more aptly put that she became a guide to those in the world.

"I am only one, but still I am one...'

If you have ever felt that you won't make a difference, that you are only one person, remember Helen Keller, what if she had said "This is to…