American - Journalist | April 17, 1870 - July 12, 1946
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Ray Stannard Baker
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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
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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.
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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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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.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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