Helen Keller

“I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate - that we could mould our lives into any form we pleased…
I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life’s struggle.
But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about. I forgot that I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment…
Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.”