“Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as su…”

“Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.”

— Helen Keller

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Title: Wikiquote: Helen Keller
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Context

My Religion (1927); later expanded and edited as Light in My Darkness (1995; 2000), Ch 6

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Keller, Helen. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Helen Keller. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

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