Quote of the day
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. . . . What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Jacob Riis
Born: May 3, 1849
Died: May 26, 1914 (aged 65)
Bio: Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.
Known for:
- How the Other Half Lives (1890)
- The Children of the Poor (1892)
- The Battle with the Slum (1902)
- Children of the Tenements (1903)
- Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1900)