"When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.],……" — 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."
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25 Quotes by Ray Stannard Baker
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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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