Helen Keller’s journal writings from eighty years ago are the surprising motivation for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players of today.
Keller, who you may best remember from a series of tacky jokes told when you were a child, was an American activist and the first blind-deaf person to receive a bachelor of arts degree.
By her mid-fifties, Keller had fought for women’s suffrage, helped create the ACLU and befriended presidents, patent owners and Charlie Chaplin. In her journal, she wrote sometime between 1936 and 1937:
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.