“Generations of the past have been responsible for certain iniquitous practises, but it remained for the present century to shut the little ones up in factories, stunting physical and mental growth. Because of child labor today the future generation of men and women will suffer. Their career will bear the stamp of human brutality.”

—  Gertrude Breslau Hunt

Woman's Voice: An Anthology (1918)

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