Rose Schneiderman Quotes

• What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. 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

  Art, Fighting, Giving

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• To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Girl, Spiritual, Men

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Rose, Bread, Ballots

  "Strikes were a part of Women's Day before. With Trump, they will be again" by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2017.

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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 death.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Jobs, Men, Littles

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• 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

  Strong, Class, People

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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

  Rose Schneiderman

  Reconstruction, Workers

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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

  Beauty, Years, Bread

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• there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Movement, Unions, Trade

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• ... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Hurt, Feelings, Important

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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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, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Girl, Men, Years

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• I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Past, Thinking, Nostalgia

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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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

  Sister, Mother, Brother

  “'I Can’t Talk Fellowship': Lessons From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster" by Cherri Foytlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Mean, People, Majority

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Mean Girls, Average, Victory

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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 labor movement.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Real, Progress, Movement

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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 paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Work, Average, Cost

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