The comment to which I am replying is a great example of that. When the bad outweighs the good, it becomes particularly important to make note of the good when it happens.

It's easy to just roll over and say everything is terrible. That's what happened to the people in this story; nobody was willing to try and do the right thing. Then, someone did. It's important to acknowledge the evil, but it's also important to hold up the good and say "Do this. You can make a difference."

Don't roll over and accept the evil as inevitable. It's not.

The sentence from the article that got me the most:

"Their promised benefits were not even brought to a vote until 2008, when most of the happy men I saw that day were dead."

55 years after the "promise."

The title of the article has the same tension with its content as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_the_U.S.A._(song)#Them...

There's also a certain similarity to the reflex reactions to the title overwhelming the perception of the subject of the work.