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JACOB RIIS
Quote of the day by American social reformer Jacob Riis on how to achieve big things in life: ‘When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that last blow that did it but all that had gone before.’Jacob Riis, a pioneering journalist and photographer, exposed the harsh realities of late 19th-century urban poverty through his powerful s...- Alone and exploited, migrant children work brutal jobs across the U.S.These workers are part of a new economy of exploitation: Migrant children, who have been coming into the United States without their parent...
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