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.
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. - 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
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of pre… - Grace Abbott
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of pre…
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. - Grace Abbott
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
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 democ… - 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 democ…
Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy. - Grace Abbott
Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.
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 pov… - 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 pov…
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 … - 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 …
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