Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blo… - Jacob August Riis
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blo…
- Jacob August Riis
Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care… - Jacob August Riis
Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care…
The slum is the measure of civilization. - Jacob August Riis
The slum is the measure of civilization.
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. - Jacob August Riis
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. - Jacob August Riis
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a p… - Jacob August Riis
I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a p…
Some defeats are only installments to victory. - Jacob August Riis
Some defeats are only installments to victory.
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad. - Jacob August Riis
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.
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