Part I: Associating
Politics*
Waiting for the Barbarians
I Shall Not Beg for My Rights
The Boy Without a Flag
They'll Say, "She Must Be from Another Country"
Fellowship
Earliest Impressions
He Sits Down on the Flor of a School for the Retarded
The Theory of Moral Sentiments*
Democracy in America*
The Souls of Black Folk*
Theme for English B
Recitatif
Part II: Serving
Luella Miller
Dry Dock
Saving the Crippled Boy
The Eleventh
The Moral Equivalent of War
The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements
The Drum Major Instinct
The Book of Ruth
The Bible
Specimen Days*
The Lovers of the Poor
What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About Service
Part III: Giving
Where We Were
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker*
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Sweetness of Charity
The Lamb and the Pinecone
The Gospel of Wealth, Part I
Self-Reliance*
Compassion: The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel
A Bed for the Night
Four Traditions of Philanthropy
Mishneh Torah*
If All Who Have Begged Help
Part IV: Leading
The Wife of His Youth
II Samuel, Chapters 11–12
The Bible
The Destructors
The Hemlsman
The Lesson
The Use of Force
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin*
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The History Teacher
Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
The Minister's Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne
*Indicates a selection taken from a longer work.
