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20 quotes by Rose Schneiderman

Rose Schneiderman (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a prominent United States labor union leader, socialist, and feminist of the first part of the twentieth century. She is credited with coining the phrase "Bread and Roses", later used as the title of a poem and set to music and interpreted by several performers.
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Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw... →

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The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

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The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to... →

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The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

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I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

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All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the... →

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By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we... →

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I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people... →

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Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose... →

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So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.

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We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

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You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

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After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already... →

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