What is missing from their reports from the underside is the energy and institutional vitality of the city's newest ethnic colonies, and the uncrushable spirit of their people, who, living in squalor and surrounded by walls of hatred, still believed they had opportunities in this surging city denied them in the places they had left behind.

— The energy of the poor in Chicago  

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