4+ Jacob Riis Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Jacob Riis quotes and sayings.

The slum is the measure of civilization. — Jacob Riis

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. — Jacob Riis

When nothing seems to help, I go 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 blow that did it, but all that had gone before. — Jacob Riis

Some defeats are only installments to victory. — Jacob Riis