#eve

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

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #every #gets #later #lynching

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. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#believe #believed #did #economic #encouragement

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. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#any #before #felt #great #great idea

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#contractors #draw #failing #filthy #habitually

I believe in people. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#i #i believe #i believe in #people

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. ↗

— Russell Baker

#emma #especially #figures #flamboyant #good

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. ↗

— Russell Baker

#barack obama #because #change #clearly #day

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american life #anywhere #becomes #enriches #except

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. ↗

— Tom Baker

#ever #got #i #i can #laughs

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. ↗

— Russell Baker

#critics #even #expecting #friends #important