Silence Can Kill

This book urges citizens to enlist government leaders to end hunger in this country and abroad and to address the nation's racial, social, and economic inequalities. The book affirms the role of charity in responding to these needs but explains why government leadership, now lagging, is essential. In the face of dangerous inequality extremes and political dysfunctions, it proposes an alternative vision for the nation, a moral center that could unite us and celebrate the nation's founding ideals--