I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . .… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp. — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life...a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share
