Ray Stannard Baker Quotes

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

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• Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Pleasure

• Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Man
  • Achieved

• No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Heart
  • Perfect

• Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Great
  • Love
  • Genius

• I've always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn't need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • People
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  • Captain

• My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?

  

  William Stafford
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Men
  • Song
  • Audience

• If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Song
  • Play
  • Messages

• The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Movement
  • Despot
  • Destitution

• How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Done
  • Son
  • Said

• Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Enough

• In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Influential
  • Resistant

• There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I stopped looking at people's opinions. It's easy to get caught up in what other people think.

  

  Jhene Aiko
  • People
  • Looking
  • Opinions

• Instead of investigating the fact that the president-elect Donald trump is going to be violating "The Constitution" with these flows of foreign fighters, they admit they have a problem. They say, oh, well, we won't - his lawyers said well, we want take the profits in the hotels.

  

  Norman L. Eisen
  • Problem
  • Constitution
  • Profits

• 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
  • Restaurants
  • Refused
  • Hotels