A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
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Nothing lastsnot even pain.Ray Stannard Baker
Did you think you could have the good without the evil Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow .... I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it .... Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face a reality a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with This pain will not last it never has lasted. Ill think about what I am going to write tomorrownot about me, not about my body.
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 serve Negroes, even the best of them.
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 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
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
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