"How the Other Half Lives" Quotes
The book "How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob A. Riis exposes the harsh living conditions of New York City's poor tenement dwellers in the late 19th century.
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Quotes
Look at the tenement house. There is a story in every one of its dark rooms, a tragedy in every one of its dark corners.
The policeman is the friend and helper of all in need, the friend of the poor, the oppressed, and the weak.
The whole tenement house system is a standing menace to the public health.
The selfishness of the rich and the greed of the poor have stood in the way of the solution of the tenement problem.
Poverty is not a crime, but it is a social blunder.
The tenements are a disgrace to civilization.
The boy of the tenements is a natural savage, for all the world like a young wolf.
The tenement house has become a social evil of the first magnitude.
The tenement house is a hotbed of crime, disease, and death.
The people that live in them are human beings, with all their possibilities of growth, of nobility, and of degradation.
