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 …

- Ray Stannard Baker

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

- Ray Stannard Baker

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 an…

- Ray Stannard Baker

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not…

- Ray Stannard Baker

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.

- Ray Stannard Baker

Adventure is not outside; it is within.

- Ray Stannard Baker

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 b…

- Ray Stannard Baker

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 othe…

- Ray Stannard Baker

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 hav…

- Ray Stannard Baker