Ray Stannard Baker
Ray Stannard Baker
Ray Stannard Bakerwas an American journalist, historian, biographer, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth17 April 1870
CountryUnited States of America
argument gets later question sooner south
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
american-journalist
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
american-journalist baked beef potatoes stew
Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
country science vacuums
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 black-and-white men
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 he will be so honored.
pain lasts
Nothing lasts-not even pain.
encouragement believe thinking
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 then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.
adventure
Adventure is not outside; it is within.
our-world cynical hopeless
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.
race car crow
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 street cars and railroad trains.
struggle book giving
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.
pain philosophy writing
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.
men people together
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 to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
knowing mind pages
Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.