"There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work."
"While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph."
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Source: Lewis Wickes Hine, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (1932). “Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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