#blind

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. ↗

— Bob Ney

#blind #braille #brings #code #created

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#been #behind #blindly #did #evil

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#going #know #then #wear #world

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#crazy #himself #his #i #impulses

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. ↗

— Don Marquis

#milton #poetry #saw #went

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. ↗