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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank
Those engaged in the solution experience greater joy than those complaining about the circumstances.
Will you make “A World That Works for Everyone” part of your conversations today?
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
-Margaret Mead
What might we do this second that would contribute to a
“World That Works for Everyone?”
If you go out to eat, will you contribute the same amount to an organization that addresses issues of persistent hunger and starvation from a point of view of sustainability?
What feelings arise when you think about doing that?
In 1977, Landon Carter, Neil Mahoney, Levy Swindell and I made a presentation regarding the peaceful desegregation of the Cleveland, Ohio public schools in the board room of the Cleveland Trust Company, now Key Bank, to it’s Chairman and other senior staff of the bank. Landon Carter was an EST trainer, Neil Mahoney a former member of the Boston “Checkers” gang and Levy was a kid from the Barrio in San Francisco who had turned his life around brilliantly at age 18.
During the conversation, the Chairman asked Levy what made him believe that kids in the inner city would be able to grasp the training we were proposing?
Levy responded simply by asking the Chairman, “what makes you think those young people want anything different from what you want in life?”
