All Ray Stannard Baker Quotes
- 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
- 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. Country
- Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be. Baked
- Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. Argument
- Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. Flash
- 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 the… All