Author: Ray Stannard Baker

Quotes

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.

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.

- Ray Stannard Baker

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

- Ray Stannard Baker

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

- 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.

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

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

- Ray Stannard Baker

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