25 Quotes by Ray Stannard Baker

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

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.

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.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

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.

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.

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.

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

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.