Ray Stannard Baker Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Ray Stannard Baker quotes and sayings page 2 (journalist). These are the last 7 out of 17 quotes we have.

“A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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