The slum is the measure of civilization.
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
Some defeats are only installments to victory. - Jacob August Riis
Some defeats are only installments to victory.
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.
The slum is the measure of civilization. - Jacob August Riis
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.
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 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.
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…
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