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Each one reach one until all are receiving an education.

Each one reach one until all are productive citizens of their countries and our world.

Each one reach one until the weak are strong and the sick are healed.

Each one reach one until your problem is mine, until mine is yours.

Just as it is not enough to ignore evil, it is not enough to just do good. It is not enough to feed the hungry and house the homeless, commendable as these acts are; we must seek to eradicate the causes of hunger and homelessness.

It may be helpful to think of it like this.

Two men sitting by a river see, to their great surprise, a helpless baby floating by. They rescue the child, and to their horror, another baby soon comes floating down the stream. When that child is pulled to safety, another baby comes along. As one man dives in the river a third time, the other rushes upstream.

"Come back," yells the man in the water. "We must save this baby!"

"You save it," the other yells back. "I'm going to find out who is throwing babies in the river and make them stop."

In days past, miners used to carry canaries to warn them when the underground air was becoming too toxic to breathe.

Today too many people want to put gas masks on the canaries instead of eliminating the poison in the air.

Too many want to put life preservers on the babies instead

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