During the time when revolutionary activities began and when Imam entered the arena, despite the slogans that some parties, groups and individuals – which were very limited and small in number – chanted, the people did not see a future.
They did not envisage a future ahead of them. That gave way to the creation of the new Islamic civilization.
If you look at the Iranian nation today, you see the blessed hands of Imam as the architect of this condition. The people are looking towards creating a new Islamic civilization, forging a great Islamic alliance and establishing the Islamic Ummah. In the present time, this is the outlook of the masses of the people.
Another transformation was changing the people’s demands. Even if a small group of people had certain demands from the then regime and the powerful groups, those demands were confined to asphalting an alley or making other changes of this sort.
Their demands were confined to that. However, Imam did something to make the people demand independence and freedom. In other words, the people began to have big demands.
For example, they were chanting the slogan such as “Neither east nor west”.
Their demands underwent such radical changes that those small and limited local slogans gave way to important and fundamental human and international affairs.
(Source: leader.ir)