He began introducing himself as the ‘world’s greatest living photographer.’ To earn that title, he lived by night, teaching himself to deal with a tough town.
‘In five years of research, apparently endless interviews with citizens of the Bronx, devoted police officers and some of the worst people on the face of the earth.’
‘Before this happens again, all the elected officials, school teachers, journalists, priests, ministers and rabbis should look in the mirror, and assume the responsibility for human life we have been reluctant to embrace.’
‘Dagger John’ Hughes built churches and a hospital, schools and a college. Most of all, he built power for the immigrant Irish in the formative years of modern New York.
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