Mintz+Wall+One+Reflection

Great change can only come from inequality, not equality. Alexis DeTocqueville saw this in his travels in America, and it has proven to be true on numerous occasions. The Civil Rights Movement did not begin with the people in America who were on top and were treated as 'equals' by those in power. It began with the forever-downtrodden African-Americans. They recognized the injustice of their lives and rallied together to put an end to it. During the Cold War, the American youth saw their lack of voting rights as unfair, so they protested and succeeded in lowering the voting age to 18. Indeed, the greatest change our nation has ever seen, the American Revolution, was the result of injustice. The American people felt that the British government was not representing their needs well, and that they were being treated poorly. They banded together under a new flag and won one of the most amazing wars this world has ever seen. Change must come from inequality. If everyone is equal, what do you have to gain from a change? If you already have some property, a family, and a stake in society, you have something to lose. It is when you are at the bottom, when there is nowhere to go but up, that revolutions become possible.