(1) Commit to Ending Poverty; (2) Adopt a Plan of Action; (3) Raise the Voice of the Poor; (4)Redeem the Role of the United States in the World; (5) Rescue the IMF and the World Bank; (6) Strengthen the United Nations; (7) Harness Global Science; (8) Promote Sustainable Development; (9) Make a Personal Commitment.
Here's is the section on making a personal commitment:
Make a Personal Commitment In the end, however, it comes back to us, an individuals. Individuals, working in unison, form and shape societies. Social commitments are commitments of individuals. Great social forces, Robert Kennedy powerfully reminded us, are the mere accumulation of individual actions. His words are more powerful today than ever:
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills - against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence ... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ...
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope, and that we worked together to heal the world.
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