"You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.”

“Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.”
― H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

“A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.”
― H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

“Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.”
― H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900