Third World America - Arianna Huffington [115]
178 As Frederick Douglass put it: W. D. Wright, Racism Matters (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998), 178.
179 The perfect example of this came in March 1965: “The Presidents: LBJ,” 1991, www.pbs.org.
180 LBJ signed the National Voting Rights Act: E.W. Kenworthy, “Johnson Signs Voting Rights Bill, Orders Immediate Enforcement,” 7 Aug. 1965, www.nytimes.com.
181 Similarly, before the start of WWII, legendary labor leader A. Philip Randolph: Jervis Anderson, A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), 259.
182 former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain: Josh Fineman and David Mildenberg, “Thain Pushed Out at Bank of America After Merrill Loss Widens,” 22 Jan. 2009, www.bloomberg.com.
183 Goldman Sachs’s Lloyd “Doing God’s Work” Blankfein: John Arlidge, “I’m Doing ‘God’s Work.’ Meet Mr. Goldman Sachs,” 8 Nov. 2009, www.thetimes.co.uk.
184 BP’s Tony “I’d Like My Life Back” Hayward: Jad Mouawad and Clifford Krauss, “Another Torrent BP Works to Stem: Its CEO,” 3 Jun. 2010, www.nytimes.com.
185 President Obama has said that we find: Barack Obama, commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, 17 Mar. 2009, www.whitehouse.gov.
186 So, as we stand at this inflection point: Jonas Salk, The Survival of the Wisest (Harper & Row, 1973), 20.
187 “Few will have the greatness”: Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address,” 6 Jun. 1966, www.jfklibrary.org.