Title: Community Link This essay is one author's persepective on the efficacy of community action groups and their quest to elevate standards of living for the underprivileged.

Introduction and Description As I stood at the corner of Fifth and Smithfield Street in Downtown Pittsburgh recently, waiting to catch a bus, an elderly woman approached me and began mumbling something inaudibly and incoherently. Her tiny, gaunt body was a stark contrast to the towering buildings that surrounded her; the sounds and speed of traffic direct contradictions of her silence and stillness. I looked at her wizened face and then into her vacant eyes, …showed first 75 words of 2938 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2938 total…hopeless, a tiny, fragile creature victimized by the avarice and egoism of others. People will seem larger than life, walking hand in hand, working together towards a definitive goal. It will not be a goal obscured and redefined to benefit the few, but a goal clearly defined to benefit all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or any other reason. E. Pluribus Unum will no longer be only a mantra. It will be a reality.