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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
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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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This quote by Grace Abbott talks with the interconnectedness of hardship and also youngster labor. Abbott is recommending that if we remain to use youngster labor as a means to reduce hardship, we will certainly never ever be able to break the cycle of destitution as well as kid labor. Abbott is emphasizing that youngster labor is not a sustainable remedy to destitution, and that it is only perpetuating the problem. She is recommending that we require to find more effective solutions to hardship that do not entail making use of children. Abbott is promoting for an extra alternative method to destitution that takes into consideration the requirements of children and also their families. She is requiring a shift in our approach to hardship, one that does not depend on the exploitation of kids.

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Grace Abbott This quote is written / told by Grace Abbott between November 17, 1878 and June 19, 1939. She was a famous Activist from USA. The author also have 4 other quotes.

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