Grace Abbott Quotes
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
Abbott, Grace. The Grace Abbott Reader. Edited by John Sorensen and Judith Sealander, University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
This quotation is very important in that Wood was one of the great political historians of early America and his judgment about the hyperpartisanship of 2012 had reached such extremes that our greatest founding fathers could not have survived in that arena.
Grace Abbott was an American social worker who specifically worked in improving the rights of immigrants and advancing child welfare, especially the regulation of child labor. Her elder sister, Edith Abbott, who was a social worker, educator and researcher, had professional interests that often complemented those of Grace's.
