Child Labor Quotes

“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the poverty of the parent, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”

“Why are seals, bears, reindeer, fish, wild game in the national parks, buffalo, and migratory birds all found suitable for federal protection, but not children?”

“In the early days of my child-labor activities I was an undercover man.”

“Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit.”

“We have, in this country, two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread.”

“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the poverty of the parent, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”