Today was the funeral of Jimmy Reid, leader of the work-in on the Clyde in 1971. He was a great believer in human potential, arguing that the inequalities of society would ensure that such potential is not realised. He fought to save the Clyde shipbuilders. Here is the rat-race speech.
"Reject the values and false morality that underlie these attitudes. A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. This is how it starts and before you know where you are, you're a fully paid-up member of the rat-pack. The price is too high. It entails the loss of your dignity and human spirit. Or as Christ put it, "What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?".
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