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Nerve Endings Firing Away

Quote from a story by Irving Zola

Sometimes attributed to community organizer Saul Alinsky, but likely adapted from a story by Irving Zola:

A group of people is standing at a riverbank and suddenly hear a baby crying. Shocked, they see an infant struggling in the water. One person immediately dives in to rescue the child. But right away, another baby comes floating down the river, and then another! People continue to jump in to save the babies and then see that one person has started to walk away from the group still onshore. Accusingly they shout, “Where are you going? We need everyone available to help save these drowning babies!” The response: “I’m going upstream to stop whoever’s throwing babies into the river.”*


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