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
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.
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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
pain lasts
Nothing lasts-not even pain.
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.