Ray Stannard Baker Quotes

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• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. Dream
• One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in… Car
• In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe… Beginning
• Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future… Any
• Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . .… Been
• There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its… Ago
• Nothing lasts-not even pain. Even Pain
• The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked… Accommodations
• Adventure is not outside; it is within. Adventure
• We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter. Bitter
• It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit… Amazing
• And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. Aspiration
• But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of… Backed
• A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. Citizens
• Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I… Carefully
• 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… All
• A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes,… Ago
• 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… Aside
• The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from… Alley
• The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman… All

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