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OUR ABILITY TO ADAPT AND CHANGE

"When property becomes so fluctuating, and the love of property so restless and so ardent, I cannot but fear that men may arrive at such a state as to regard every new theory as a peril, every innovation as an irksome toil, every social improvement as a stepping-stone to revolution, and so refuse to move altogether for fear of being moved too far." --Alexis de Tocqueville, //Democracy in America//

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The search for truly democratic alternatives to the present,and a commitment to social experimentation with them,is a worthy and fulfilling human enterprise, one which moves us and, we hope, others today."--Tom Hayden, //The Port Huron Statement//  "Why, we're the people— we go on."  —John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Tolstoy "I got thinkin’ how we was holy when we was one thing, an’ mankin’ was holy when it was one thing.  An’ it on’y got unholy when one mis’able little fella got the bit in his teeth an’ run off his own way,  kickin’ an’ draggin’ an’ fightin’.  Fella like that bust the holi-ness. But when they’re all workin’ together,  not one fella for another fella,  but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang—that’s right, that’s holy." —John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath

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