Ray Stannard Baker Quotes

• 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.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Our World, Cynical, Hopeless

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• Mirando hacia atrás, tengo que lamentar que con demasiada frecuencia, cuando amaba, no lo decía.

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  Amor, Positivo, Desamor

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

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• 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.

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  Reality, Doe, Discrimination

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

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• 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.

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  Stronger, Bars, Steel

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Atlanta, White Man

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

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• Una turba es el método por el que los buenos ciudadanos entregan la ley y el gobierno a las clases criminales o irresponsables.

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  Law, Class, Government

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

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• Adventure is not outside; it is within.

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  Aventura

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• 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.

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  Book, Struggle, Giving

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

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• 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.

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  Boston, Years, Guests

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Ideas, Together

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• Las calles y callejones del barrio estaban notoriamente sucios, y los contratistas los descuidaban habitualmente, aunque no dejaban de recibir sus pagos regulares del tesoro de la ciudad.

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  Cities, City Streets, Failing

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• A veces pienso que esperamos demasiado del día de Navidad. Intentamos amontonar en él los largos atrasos de bondad y humanidad de todo el año. En cuanto a mí, me gusta tomarme la Navidad poco a poco, durante todo el año.

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  Navidad, Navidad, Vacaciones

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

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• 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.

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  Knowing, Mind, Pages

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• Debe haber una técnica para afrontar el dolor. Debe haber una técnica de resistencia basada en el poder del alma para mantener su propia serenidad, como enseñó hace mucho tiempo Marcus Aurelius.

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  Pain, Long Ago, Serenity

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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.

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  Life, Pain, Philosophy

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• Medido por cualquier rasero, blanco o negro, Washington debe ser considerado hoy como uno de los grandes hombres de este país: y en el futuro será honrado así.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Country, Black And White, Men

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

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• 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.

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  Race, Car, Crow

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

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• Nothing lasts-not even pain.

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  Pain, Lasts

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

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• 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.

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  Encouragement, Believe, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Men, People, Together

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• 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.

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  Country, Science, Vacuums

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