one person _can_ make a difference.
something to remember the next time someone says "why bother? one person doesn't matter/can't make a difference."
from The Everyman Who Exposed Tainted Toothpaste
By WALT BOGDANICH
Published: October 1, 2007
PANAMA - Eduardo Arias hardly fits the profile of someone capable of humbling one of the world’s most formidable economic powers.
A 51-year-old Kuna Indian, Mr. Arias grew up on a reservation paddling dugout canoes near his home on one of the San Blas islands off Panama’s Caribbean coast. He now lives in a small apartment above a food stand in Panama, the nation’s capital, also known as Panama City.
But one Saturday morning in May, Eduardo Arias did something that would reverberate across six continents. He read the label on a 59-cent tube of toothpaste. On it were two words that had been overlooked by government inspectors and health authorities in dozens of countries: diethylene glycol, the same sweet-tasting, poisonous ingredient in antifreeze that had been mixed into cold syrup here, killing or disabling at least 138 Panamanians last year.
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so, next time someone says that 'one person can't make a difference'?
you can tell them to go blow it.