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.
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Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
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.
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A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
boston years guests
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.
christmas xmas holiday
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.