By the end of my second year , the great textile strike had broken out in Passaic where I had worked, so I commuted between Yale Law School and Passa… - Justine W. Polier

I was one of the most fortunate of children because my parents shared so much- in their ideals, their work...And perhaps most important they...never gave us the feeling they were too busy or engaged in anything more important than their life with us.

Those were the days of the battles for the right to organize, and the conditions of workers were abominable.

As case after case came up, I saw the vast chasms between our rhetoric of freedom, equality and charity, and what we were doing to, or not doing for, poor people, especially children.