Boston Quote by Ray Stannard Baker

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

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

Nothing lasts-not even pain.

— Ray Stannard Baker

Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as…

— Ray Stannard Baker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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