6+ Grace Abbott Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Grace Abbott quotes and sayings.

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. — Grace Abbott

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

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 necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school. — 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 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