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Equality and Change in America

Words from Alex de Tocqueville from his "Democracy in America"
 * "Almost every revolution which has changed the shape of nations has been made to consolidate or destroy inequality. Disregarding the secondary causes which have had some effect on the great convulsions in the world, you will almost always find that equality was at the heart of the matter. Either the poor were bent on snatching the property of the rich, or the rich were trying to hold the poor down. So, then, if you could establish a state of society in which each man had something to keep and little to snatch, you would have done much for the peace of the world." (635).**




 * "Not only do men in democracies feel no natural inclination for revolutions, but they are afraid of them." (636).**

"Sea Change" by Terry Matassoni 2007


 * "There are also other, and even stronger, reasons which prevent any great change in the doctrines of a democratic people coming about easily... Whereas, in such a nation, the influence of individuals is weak and almost nonexistent, the power of the mass over each individual mind is very great." (643)**

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