Grace Abbott Professions : Social Worker Born : November 17, 1878 Died : June 19, 1939 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Grace Abbott 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 labor-day together children Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs. Grace Abbott childhood responsibility children Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy. Grace Abbott justice-for-all democracy children 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 girl responsibility baby Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. Grace Abbott jam home night 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 democracy children school The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. Grace Abbott moving-on agency government Similar Authors Abby May Alcott social-worker Mary Parker Follett social-worker All Authors
