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Jacob August Riis, the pioneering Danish-American journalist and social reformer, exposed the harsh realities of urban poverty in late 19th-century America through his groundbreaking photography and investigative reporting. His influential work, including the seminal book "How the Other Half Lives," sparked public awareness and spurred efforts to address social inequality and improve living conditions for the less fortunate.
"Look at a stone cutter 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."
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"I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
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