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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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