3 Quotes by Jacob A. Riis

The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.

Out of forty-eight boys twenty had never seen the Brooklyn Bridge that was scarcely five minutes’ walk away, three only had been in Central Park, fifteen had known the joy of a ride in a horse-car. The street, with its ash-barrels and its dirt, the river that runs foul with mud, are their domain.

How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man?