"Self Help" is a speech by Haile Selassie, delivered in its historical setting. After this short context paragraph, the reading gives the speech itself so students can examine rhetorical technique and effect in the speaker's own words.

The people themselves must come to realize their own difficulties in the development of their community and try to solve them by collective participation following an order of priority and taking their potentiality into account.

It is well known to you all that recognizing one's problems and striving hard to challenge them is a mark of an attempt at self-sufficiency. Self help in the benefits to be acquired through education, will save the individual from asking someone's assistance.