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  • 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.

    Life   Pain   Philosophy  
  • The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

    Men   Atlanta   White Man  
    Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
  • 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 being right.

    Stronger   Bars   Steel  
    Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
  • 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.

    Book   Struggle   Giving  
    Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Race   Car   Crow  
    Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
  • 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 and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

    Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
  • 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 whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

    Ray Stannard Baker (1910). “Adventures in Friendship”
  • 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.

    Men   People   Together  
  • 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.

    Knowing   Mind   Pages  
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Nothing lasts-not even pain.

    Pain   Lasts  
    David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker (1942). “Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
  • 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.

    Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
  • Adventure is not outside; it is within.

  • 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.

  • A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

    Law   Class   Government  
    Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
  • Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

    David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker (1942). “Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
  • 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, even the best of them.

    Boston   Years   Guests  
    Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
  • 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 own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

  • 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 if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

    Men   Ideas   Together  
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