Tim Cook: How The Klan, MLK and Bobby Kennedy Shaped Me

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Cook has been a vocal supporter of workplace equality. Cook wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed in support of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, which would ban workplace discrimination based on gender or sexual identity. The proposed law was passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate but has not been taken up by the Republican-led House. During a Wall Street Conference call, Cook said he wants Apple to be “a force for good.”

Cook said that Apple has non-discriminatory policies that should now be written into law. “Now is the time to write these principles of basic human dignity into the book of law,” he said.

“Growing up in Alabama in 1960s, I saw the devastating impacts of discrimination,” Cook said in the speech in New York on Dec 10. “Remarkable people were denied opportunities and treated without basic human dignity solely because of the color of their skin.”

Cook noted that there are three photos in his office at Apple: two of Bobby Kennedy and one of Martin Luther King.

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