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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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
Suddenly it came to me, as a kind of new light, that I would no longer resist and struggle I would accept the unavoidable. If it was in the nature of my disease, what else that was wise could I do At first the torment, ravaging unrestrained, seemed even.
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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.
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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.
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