It’s Time to Abandon the Culture of Victimhood

A statue of Helen Keller in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, in a file photo. Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images

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Born blind and deaf, Helen Keller certainly had something to complain about. But she didn’t. Instead she told others, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” And she stated, “A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”