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 Read Quote
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. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote