There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul… — Ray Stannard Baker Endurance 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… — Ray Stannard Baker Car Copy Share Image
Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed… — Ray Stannard Baker Collections 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… — Ray Stannard Baker Aspiration 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,… — Ray Stannard Baker Felt 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 Body 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… — Ray Stannard Baker Alleys 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… — Ray Stannard Baker Country 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 Citizens 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… — Ray Stannard Baker Boston 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… — Ray Stannard Baker Best christmas Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life...a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the… — Ray Stannard Baker Beauty Copy Share Image
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or… — Ray Stannard Baker Accommodations Copy Share Image
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some… — Ray Stannard Baker Crafts Copy Share Image
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask… — Ray Stannard Baker Atlanta Copy Share Image
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by… — Ray Stannard Baker Bars Copy Share Image
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I… — Ray Stannard Baker Believe Copy Share Image
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we… — Ray Stannard Baker Bitter Copy Share Image
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and… — Ray Stannard Baker Black Copy Share Image
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. — Ray Stannard Baker Argument Copy Share Image