Transforming a spirit of passivity and lassitude into a spirit of demanding.
What comes following has been extracted from the leader's statements about Imam.
In my youth, during the time when the movement began to take shape, the Iranian nation was a nation that was not preoccupied with its fundamental issues.
They had given up and they were passive. They did not have an opinion about their personal lives.
There was no trace of dynamism, active presence and insistence, on big and important issues, in the behavior and conduct of our people.
However, Imam aroused these qualities in the people.
He turned the same submissive and passive nation into a determined nation that pursued its demands.
His inspiring, stirring and stimulating speeches moved the people in a way that they turned into a people with demands.
An example of this pursuance of demands is the events of the year 1341AHS – when the Islamic movement started – during which time, the people held massive demonstrations in different cities which ended in the events of the 15th of Khordad.
On the 15th of Khordad, despite a large-scale massacre, the regime could not extinguish the movement.
And the people continued to stage uprisings until the end.
That was an astonishing transformation that had been masterminded by Imam.