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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

~Ray Stannard Baker

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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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Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

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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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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.

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In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 17th, 1870

Died: July 12th, 1946

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