"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."

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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

#Reality Quotes #Doe Quotes #Discrimination Quotes

“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
“Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.”
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.”
“I became really absorbed but again I was at that point - and I still remain today - an outsider who has no interest in becoming an insider, let alone in what that insider perspective on [Buckminster Fuller] has come to be and come to represent.”
“Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries”

Source : John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”
“Lovers should also have their days off.”
“I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.”
“No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.”

Source : Irving Greenberg (1998). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.253, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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