5 Quotes & Sayings By Grace Abbott

Grace Abbott was born and raised in San Francisco and attended the University of California at Berkeley. She became a photographer while working for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1972, she was hired by Life Magazine and subsequently received assignments from many other prominent publications including Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and Elle. In 1977 she opened her own portrait studio in San Francisco and specializes in fashion and celebrity portraiture Read more

Her work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Commonwealth Club of California, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, and other venues throughout the United States and abroad.

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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
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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. Grace Abbott
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The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. Grace Abbott
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Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. Grace Abbott