Nothing lastsnot even pain.
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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
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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
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
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
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.
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