Union Movement Quotes by Rose Schneiderman

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it…

— Rose Schneiderman

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

— Rose Schneiderman

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

— Rose Schneiderman

To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a…

— Rose Schneiderman

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too,

— Rose Schneiderman

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

— Rose Schneiderman

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

— Rose Schneiderman

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our…

— Rose Schneiderman

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by…

— Rose Schneiderman

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is…

— Rose Schneiderman

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

— Rose Schneiderman

By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own…

— Rose Schneiderman

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

— Rose Schneiderman

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters…

— Rose Schneiderman

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

— Rose Schneiderman