"The streets and alleys of the ward were……" — 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 from the city treasury."
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25 Quotes by Ray Stannard Baker
Ray Stannard Baker has 25 quotes on this site.
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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
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One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of…
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In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement.…
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Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this…
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Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without…
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There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of…
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Nothing lasts-not even pain.
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The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no…
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Adventure is not outside; it is within.
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We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not…
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It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it…
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And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than,…
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty…
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If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.
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In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for…
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If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be…
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Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of…
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The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are…
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And you call yourselves a bowling alley?
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