... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in… — 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
