“When nothing seems to help, I go and 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 that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before.”

About Jacob Riis

Journalist • Danish-American

Jacob Riis was a pioneering Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and social documentary photographer. He is renowned for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City,...