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Jacob Riis
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Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist, and social documentary photographer.
Quotes
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 blow that did it—but all that had gone before.
James Clear's Atomic Habits as attributed to Riis in the San Antonio Spurs locker room
Originally from The Making of an American (1901), p. 253
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Category:Journalists from the United States
Category:Social activists
Category:Photographers from the United States
Category:1849 births
Category:1914 deaths