Paul Palmer quotes

“People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.”
-- Paul Palmer

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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”

Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.

“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.”

“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”

“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”

“As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.”

Source : "Long Joan Silver". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, July 10, 2013.

“I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.”

“In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!”

“Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.”