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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: November 17th, 1878

Died: June 19th, 1939

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