Speaking Words of Wisdom... (retro version)

Mr. Moynihan added:
“You perhaps did not note on the society page of yesterday’s Times that Mrs. Leonard Bernstein gave a cocktail party on Wednesday to raise money for the Panthers.”

All this, in Mr. Moynihan’s view, obscured a larger reality. “There is a silent black majority as well as a white one. . . . It is politically moderate (on issues other than racial equality) and shares most of the concerns of its white counterpart. This group has been generally ignored by the government, and the media. The more recognition we can give to it, the better off we shall all be.”

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