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Grace Abbott Quotes

Type:
Activist Quotes
Category:
American Activist Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 17, 1878
Date of Death:
June 19, 1939
Nationality:
American
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Grace Abbott

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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
Grace Abbott

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
Grace Abbott

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
Grace Abbott

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
Grace Abbott


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