“The slum is the measure of civilization.”

“In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accom-modates itself to its envi-ronment, and human life is no exception.”

“Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!”

“Just as one bad boy in a school room will spoil the whole class”

“Did not the manager of the Fresh Air Fund write to the pastor of an Italian Church only last year{9} that “no one asked for Ital-ian children,” and hence he

could not send any to the country?”

"Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true

then. It did not know be-cause it did not care.”

“The half that was on top cared little for the strug-gles, and less for the fate, of those who were under-neath, so long as it was

able to hold them there and keep its own seat.”

“It did not know because it did not care until some fla-grant outrage on decency and the health of the com-munity aroused it to noisy

but ephemeral indigna-tion.”

“The new tenements, that have been recently built, have been usually as badly planned as the old, with dark and unhealthy rooms,

often over wet cellars, where extreme overcrowd-ing is permitted,”

“As Long as they exist it will exist with them. And the tenements will exist in New York forever”

"To the peril that threatens there all the senses are alert, whereas the poison that proceeds from Mott Street puts mind and body

to sleep, to work out its deadly purpose in the cor-ruption of the soul.”

“The mother of the three bare-footed little children we met on the stairs was taken to the hospital the

other day when she could no longer work. She will never come out alive.”

“There is no waste in these tenements. Lives, like clothes, are worn through and out before put aside.”

"It was 'soon perceived by es-tate owners and agents of property that a greater per-centage of profits could be realized by the conversion of houses and blocks into bar-racks, and dividing their

space into smaller propor-tions capable of containing human life within four walls.'"

"The death of a child in a tenement was registered at the Bureau of Vital Statis-tics as 'plainly due to suffo-

cation in the foul air of an unventilated apartment.'”