"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."

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Source : Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

Ray Stannard Baker

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“I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.”
“No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.”
“The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music.”

Source : "And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”
“It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit”
“People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946”
“I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism or Islam, and even participate in religious rituals such as marriages and funerals, without buying into the supernatural beliefs that historically went along with those traditions. We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.”

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