Rose Schneiderman Quotes

Polish - Activist | April 6, 1882 - August 11, 1972

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 immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

Rose Schneiderman

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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.

Rose Schneiderman

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

Rose Schneiderman

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

Rose Schneiderman

WomenYouHeatBecauseWorking

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 death.

Rose Schneiderman

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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 to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

Rose Schneiderman

ExperiencePeopleStrongYouKnow

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

Rose Schneiderman

TogetherStandWillMoreTakeGet

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

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We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

Rose Schneiderman

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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 way of a charity gift.

Rose Schneiderman

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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 law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

Rose Schneiderman

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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 standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

Rose Schneiderman

BeautyWomenMeYearYouLose

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