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.
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
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
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
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
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…
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
A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not…
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 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…
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
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.
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. - Ray Stannard Baker
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.
Adventure is not outside; it is within. - Ray Stannard Baker
Adventure is not outside; it is within.
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
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…
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