Ch.4 Poverty of Courage riff.

In this chapter, Poverty of Courage, West and Smiley really brought out the dirty truth about poverty. It opened my mind on how the people who made great change in the past were actually people who experienced the challenges. Those voices were brave and had enough courage to speak up, no matter the consequences. ''Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen''(102). While this nation claims to be so brave and fearful, they don't have to courage to sit down and listen to their citizens about the extreme problems that are happening. Another reason that this chapter was most interesting was that it touched similar morals and opinions. ''If no one honestly speaks out about the suffering of the suffering of the dispossessed, their pain will never be heard''(111). Now what this nation needs is a person who's voice is actually going to be heard and taken seriously into consideration. Though the people in extreme poverty are possessed with this life style--that they clearly have not chosen-- their voices are useless. They practically don't have a say in anything. The lower class are the ones who are paying the price on everything that is happening in the country. They are the most desperate and vulnerable. ''War is the enemy of the poor''(110). Though the rich have no interest nor worry about what's happening in the world because their wealth wont be affected by anything. Either they'll just let things happen and give this country the cold shoulder or they'll do some awareness just because someone they know really got hurt by it. The government won't want to talk about poverty because they'll have to talk about the rich. Which is them, and they don't want to look shameful in all America for this tragedy.