"What can one Person Do" is the selection I would make to end poverty, Rank lists in this particular chapter.
Many times when others are involved and not sincere in assisting or helping in a sincere way it can do more
harm than good. Paul Rogat Loeb, notes in his book," Soul of a Citizen, Our actions don't always transform
institutions directly. Change comes, to be sure, when we shift corporate or governmental policies, elect more
accountable leaders, or create effective institutional alternatives. But it also comes when we stir the hearts of
previously uninvolved citizens and help them take their own moral stands, It comes when we set motion
chains of concern that eventually help alter history. (1999: 101-102)"
Many people today unfortunately are affected by the social ills of todays society and are not capable of doing
for their selves, and there are those that prey amoungst them to do them economic or bodily harm, this is
wrong. In today's society many so called leaders of great responsibility are leaving those people behind and
only doing for themselves. Some of these individuals have so much money and their only goal is to acquire
more and push more laws that hurt those that don't have any.
Unfortunately, many times we must start alone and set an example so that others may observe and learn; I
don't know if you would call this being a martyr but helping those that can't help themselves has to start
somewhere. Can we ever end poverty, it would be nice.
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