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

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

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

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonge…

- Ray Stannard Baker

Adventure is not outside; it is within.

- Ray Stannard Baker

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, kno…

- Ray Stannard Baker