The Incorruptibles Quotes

“During the peak decades of globalized Jewish prostitution, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, whenever morality crusades would seek to push Jewish pimps out of a city, the crusade’s success often coincided with a kind of Spartacus moment, an episode in which a prostitute, or a group of prostitutes, decided to break the chain of bondage and join the crusade.”
― Dan Slater, The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

“Gaynor disliked reformers. The ones he knew were hypocrites who wanted to tell the poor when they could consume alcohol or conduct business. Too often, in Gaynor’s view, reformers were the same people who paid slave wages, then turned around and called East Siders prostitutes and criminals. “Such people think it is the mayor’s job to not have a single criminal on the streets,” Gaynor once wrote. “I ask these good people what they have done to rescue a single unfortunate woman from the life she is leading.” But if Gaynor had to deal”
― Dan Slater, The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

“Beneath all of that grandeur, on the other hand, there was rot. If New York had the grandest mansions, it also had the worst slums, inhabited by a massive underclass who worked in the city’s thirty thousand factories.”
― Dan Slater, The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld