Wall+on+Change

// Citation: http://www.5forcesofchange.com/about/articles/article-lessons-president-obama-leading-change-hr-director-magazine/// "In democratic societies between these two extremes there is an innumerable crowd who are much alike, who, though not exactly rich nor yet quite poor, have enough property to want order and not enough to excite envy ." (//Democracy in America// Alexis de Tocqueville 636) "Such men are the natural enemies of violent commotion; their imobility keeps all above and below them quiet, and assures the stability of the body social." (//Democracy in America// Alexis de Tocqueville 636) "I am not suggesting that they are themselves satisfied with their actual position or that they would feel any natural abhorrence toward a revoltion if they could share the plunder without suffering the calamities; on the contrary, their eagerness to get rich is unparalleled, but their trouble is to know who to despoil. The same social condition which prompts their longings restrains them within necessary limits. It gives men both greater freedom to change and less interest in doing so ." (//Democracy in America// Alexis de Tocqueville 636) "Hence the majority of citizens in a democracy do not see clearly what they could gain by revolution, but they constantly see a thousand ways in which they could lose by one ." (//Democracy in America// Alexis de Tocqueville 636-637) media type="youtube" key="1yq0tMYPDJQ" height="349" width="425" Mariel's Wall on the American Other Mariel's Wall on Dreaming Mariel's Wall on Race     Mariel's Reflections Back to Home
 * Change in America**  //"But what we know - what we have seen - is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow."// (//Barack Obama's Speech on Race// Barack Obama 6)