Question

What is Johnson’s belief regarding social change?

Social change must be based on economic surplus.

Social change must be a never-ending process.

Social change comes from communities, not individuals.

Social change is born from boredom and restlessness.
The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning. The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where man can renew contact with nature. It is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what it adds to the understanding of the race. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods. But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work.

—President Lyndon B. Johnson
May 22, 1964

Answer 1

"Social change must be a never-ending process."

Johnson calls the Great Society "not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work," implying social change is ongoing rather than complete.