The 8 Laws of Social Change

Law Number 1
The individuals, individually, and the group, collectively, must share a
common intention.

Law Number 2
The individuals and the group may have goals, but they may not have
cherished outcomes.

Law Number 3
The individuals in the group must accept that their goal may not be
reached in their lifetimes, and be O.K. with that.

Law Number 4
The individuals in the group must accept that they may not get either
credit or acknowledgment for what they have done, and be authentically
O.K. about this.

Law Number 5
Each person in the group regardless of gender, religion, race, or culture
must enjoy fundamental equality even as the various roles in the
hierarchy of the effort are respected.

Law Number 6
The individuals in the group must foreswear violence in word, act… or
thought.

Law Number 7
The individuals in the group must make their private selves consistent
with their public postures.

Law Number 8
The individuals in the group, and the group collectively, must always act
from the “beingness” of integrity.

Stephan A. Schwartz
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