“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you conti...” — Grace Abbott Quote

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.”

“I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted together, a film projected on the back of my mind.”

“Three hundred years is a very long time, and no time at all.”

“It is just a question of time, if it can stand the test of time then it's a real thing.”

“Not the intense moment”

“Oh, the wizardry of history. All the people who have lived and died, the people whose stories have survived.”

“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.”