One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how heaven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children,… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine. — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity. — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them. — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash,… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
