Jimmy Reid: 'A rat race is for rats. We're not rats', Rectorial address, Glasgow University - 1972 — Speakola
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Jimmy Reid: 'A rat race is for rats. We're not rats', Rectorial address, Glasgow University - 1972 — Speakola
short excerpt of speech at 4.27, a longer excerpt is on Education Scotland website When this speech was reprinted in the New York Times, it was described as 'the greatest speech since President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address '. It was delivered upon his election as Rector of Glasgow Univer
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Jimmy Reid’s “Alienation” speech, often known as the rat race speech, delivered in 1972 at University of Glasgow, argues that modern society reduces people to cogs in a “rat race”, stripping work, education, and daily life of meaning and dignity. Reid calls for a human-centred society based on solidarity, purpose, and democratic involvement rather than profit and competition. More than 50 years on it still feels strikingly relevant — which is why it’s often compared to landmark speeches like the
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