Grace Abbott
Grace Abbott
Grace Abbottwas an American social worker who specifically worked in improving the rights of immigrants, especially those from eastern Europe, and advancing child welfare, especially the regulation of child labor. Her elder sister, Edith Abbott, who was a social worker, educator and researcher, had professional interests that often complemented those of Grace's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth17 November 1878
CountryUnited States of America
Grace Abbott quotes about
children justice-for-all democracy
Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.
home night jam
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
girl baby responsibility
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.
moving-on agency government
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
children school age
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.
children responsibility childhood
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.
children labor-day together
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.