Grace Abbott quotes
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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.”
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“The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.”
-- Grace AbbottSource : Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press
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“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 AbbottSource : Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”
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“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.”
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“Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.”
-- Grace AbbottSource : Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press
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“Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.”
-- Grace AbbottSource : Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press
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“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
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin
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“Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together”
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“The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.”
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