"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9
A new voice is being heard in American today.
It is a voice that has been silent too long.
It is a voice of people who have not taken to the streets before.
These forgotten Americans finally have become angry.
They have not really found a voice in American politics but they are indeed angry.
And have reason to be.
How is the great mass of white working people to regain a sense of positive advantage from the operation of American Government, and retain a steady loyalty to the processes of American society, at a time when those above and below them in the social hierarchy seem simultaneously to be robbing the system blind and contemptuously dismissing all its rules...
May 17, 1969
Letter to President Richard Nixon
From Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Sound Familiar?
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