Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world. (Helen Keller)

Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world.

Helen Keller

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