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
cities city-streets failing
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.
stronger steel bars
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.
reality doe discrimination
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.
pain long-ago serenity
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.
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.
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.
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.
men ideas together
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.
love positive heartbreak
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
men white-man order
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.