It is of just as much importance to the one as to the other that the man from Hester Street or the Bowery or Avenue B, and the man from the Riverside Drive or Fifth Avenue, should have some meeting-ground where they can grow to understand one another as an incident of working for a common end.
In an essay promoting civic engagement, this quote highlights the crucial need for people from different social strata to interact and understand each other through shared endeavors.
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