Rose Schneiderman Quotes

Rose Schneiderman — Polish Activist born on April 06, 1882, died on August 11, 1972

Rose Schneiderman 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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.

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