At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image