P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
O'Rourke, P. J. Eat the Rich. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998, p. 212.
This famous address was called his “Atlanta Compromise.” Discrimination against Blacks throughout the South and some of the North was rampant with most Blacks unable to make a decent living or partake of social amenities even if they had earned some money. There was pressure from Blacks for social and economic equality. Washington signaled in this address that Black leadership of the day would forgo their efforts to obtain social equality—symbolized by attending the opera which was for all white audiences—if the society would make gradual and steady progress at eliminating the economic equality. Other Black leaders saw this as a sell-out. See Du Bois {625802}.
Patrick Jake O'Rourke is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Since 2011, he has been a columnist at The Daily Beast.
