Jacob Riis once said, “Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps 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 the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” When Riis’s life is closely examined, it becomes apparent that he took his own words to heart! He never stopped pressing for change and reform of problems created by industrialization and urbanization. When he finally achieved…
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