All Rose Schneiderman Quotes
- 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,… Average
- What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the… Art
- 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… Advantage
- 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… Burned
- The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too, Bread
- We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by… Brother
- 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… All
- Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2… Average
- You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. Humblest
- 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… All
- I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. Bodies
- We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. Found
- The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. Inquisition
- But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the… Allowed
- We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat. Foundries
- The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. Ballot
- I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory… All
- 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… Attack
- Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out… Board
- So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more. More