Quote of the Month: December 2019 - Jacob A. Riis

Quote of the Month (12/19):
"We know now that there is no way out; that the 'system' that was the evil offspring of public neglect and private greed has come to stay, a storm-centre forever of our civilization. Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain."
Jacob A. Riis
Photographer, Journalist, Social Reformer
How the Other Half Lives:
Studies Among the Tenements of New York
(1890)