Ray Stannard Quotes

#1. It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else
were happiness also impossible.

Epictetus

#2. 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, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.

Ray Stannard Baker

#3. My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.

Van Morrison

#4. Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

Ray Stannard Baker

#5. One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock-strength, the sea's cold flow
And man's dark soul.

Robinson Jeffers

#6. Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.

Josh Lanyon

#7. General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent.

Gail Godwin

#8. That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.

Eva Rubinstein

#9. In the midst of affection and longing the iron hand appeared within the velvet glove....

Cecil Woodham-Smith

#10. Nothing lasts-not even pain.

Ray Stannard Baker

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

Ray Stannard Baker

#12. 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.

Ray Stannard Baker

#13. Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#14. 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

#15. 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.

Ray Stannard Baker

#16. 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.

Ray Stannard Baker

#17. There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

Ray Stannard Baker

#18. 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.

Ray Stannard Baker

#19. 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.

Ray Stannard Baker

#20. 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.

Ray Stannard Baker

#21. 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

#22. When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

Ray Stannard Baker

#23. 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.

Ray Stannard Baker

#24. Every problem is a puzzle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

Bill Willingham

#26. Adventure is not outside; it is within.

Ray Stannard Baker

#27. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

Ray Stannard Baker

#28. 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.

Ray Stannard Baker

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

Ray Stannard Baker

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

Ray Stannard Baker

#31. No matter what her father wanted, no way was Clara going to partner up with Light Walker. He'd suggested a tarantula for a snack, for heaven's sake.
The were never, ever, ever going to work together.

Dana Marton

#32. 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.

Ray Stannard Baker

#33. You don't appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

Luigi Pirandello

#34. 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