Grace Abbott

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

— Grace Abbott

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was…

— Grace Abbott

Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.

— Grace Abbott

Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a…

— 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

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on…

— Grace Abbott

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for…

— Grace Abbott