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Excerpt from: The Plain Truth The time for hinting at unpleasant truths is past. Let us insist that the States put into practice every known and approved method of prevention, and that physicians and teachers open the doors of knowledge wide for the people to enter in. The facts are not agreeable reading, often they are revolting. But it is better that our sensibilities should be shocked than that we should be ignorant of facts upon which rest sight, hearing, intelligence, morals and the life of the children of men.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Plain Truth | |
| From: | Out Of The Dark | |
| Creator: | Helen Keller (author) | |
| Date: | 1920 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publisher: | Doubleday, Page & Company, New York | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.173-177 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; American Association Of Workers For The Blind; Blind; Boston, MA; Children; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Disease; Doctors; Education; Helen Keller; Institutions; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Commission For The Blind; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Prevention; Public Health & Welfare; Schools; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Venereal Disease; Women & Gender | |
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| Note: | Address at the annual convention of the American Association of Workers for the Blind, Boston, August 27, 1907. |
