PART I: ASSOCIATING

• Politics*Aristotle
• Waiting for the BarbariansConstantine Cavafy
• I Shall Not Beg for My RightsHenry MacNeal Turner
• The Boy Without a FlagAbraham Rodriguez Jr.
• They'll Say, "She Must Be from Another Country"Imtiaz Dharker
• FellowshipFranz Kafka
• Earliest ImpressionsJane Addams
• He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the RetardedAlden Nowlan
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments*Adam Smith
• Democracy in America*Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Souls of Black Folk*W. E. B. Du Bois
• Theme for English BLangston Hughes
• RecitatifToni Morrison
• Mending WallRobert Frost

PART II: SERVING

• Luella MillerMary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Dry DockMargaret Sutherland
• Saving the Crippled BoyJan Beatty
• The EleventhHenri Barbusse
• The Moral Equivalent of WarWilliam James
• The Subjective Necessity of Social SettlementsJane Addams
• The Drum Major InstinctMartin Luther King Jr.
• The Book of Ruth
• Specimen Days*Walt Whitman
• The Lovers of the PoorGwendolyn Brooks
• What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About ServiceAdam Davis

PART III: GIVING

• Where Were WeDave Eggers
• The Reveries of the Solitary Walker*Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Sweetness of CharityMaya Angelou
• The Lamb and the PineconePablo Neruda
• The Gospel of Wealth, Part IAndrew Carnegie
• Self-Reliance*Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Compassion: The Wish-Fulfilling JewelSogyal Rinpoche
• A Bed for the NightBertolt Brecht
• Four Traditions of PhilanthropyElizabeth Lynn and D. Susan Wisely
• Mishneh Torah*
• If All Who Have Begged HelpAnna Akhmatova

PART IV: LEADING

• The Wife of His YouthCharles Waddell Chesnutt
• II Samuel, Chapters 11-12
• The DestructorsGraham Greene
• The HelmsmanFranz Kafka
• The LessonToni Cade Bambara
• The Use of ForceWilliam Carlos Williams
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin*Benjamin Franklin
• The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasUrsula K. Le Guin
• The History TeacherBilly Collins
• Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln
• The Minister's Black VeilNathaniel Hawthorne