We can create peaceful change, but it’s going to take resolve. And it’s going to take a resolution.
 
Most of us have made a New Year’s resolution, at least once in our lives. This is different. We need to make a resolution to make a significant change in the way we, as a country, and we, as citizens, work together.
 
When the country, the United States, was founded, the founders began with a Declaration, the Declaration of Independence. In it, they stated the values upon which independence could be based. And then they listed a set of grievances, which ultimately led to the Revolutionary War.
 
It’s time for a revolutionary peace or a resolution to make peaceful change. In this book, we offer a set of values, not unlike those of the Declaration, and we offer a set of grievances—not our own personal ones, but those that many people may have. And we do so to suggest it’s time that we make some resolutionary, peaceful, revolutionary changes.
 
You have the opportunity to take steps to make a better, more peaceful, more harmonious world, beginning with reading this very short book about the kind of change that is within our potential. And so, we invite you to become a part of starting a resolution and stopping a revolution. Great change sometimes comes about with the aid of writing. The Revolutionary War was aided by Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. We hope this writing, with your involvement, will play at least a small role in bringing about peaceful change in this country and the world at a time when we need some modern common sense.
 
This is an appeal to those in power and to those who have the wealth to consider making some dramatic changes. If you don’t have wealth and power, you nonetheless have the power to share this book with others to add your voice to a chorus suggesting that it’s time for a resolutionary change.