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Jacob August Riis Quotes

The slum is the measure of civilization.

"Introducing 'Breakdown: Americans on the Edge'” by Timothy L. O’Brien, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

Jacob August Riis (1973). “Jacob Riis revisited: poverty and the slum in another era”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs