Top 33 Rose Schneiderman Quotes

#1. 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

Rose Schneiderman Quotes #346
#2. 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

Rose Schneiderman Quotes #3280
#3. He held her face in his hands and his gaze warmed her sadness. "I don't care how you got here. I'm just happy you were born." He rubbed noses with hers. "Real happy.

Selena Robins

Rose Schneiderman Quotes #4538
#4. I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

Rose Schneiderman

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#5. 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

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#6. 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

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

Rose Schneiderman

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#8. 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 soon they would go out of themselves.

Rose Schneiderman

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

Rose Schneiderman

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#10. 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

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

Rose Schneiderman

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#12. The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

William Law

Rose Schneiderman Quotes #465665
#13. The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

Rose Schneiderman

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#14. Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.

Derek The Ghost

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#15. The trial designed to bring the most rigorous statistical analysis to the cause of lung cancer barely required elementary mathematics to prove its point.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Rose Schneiderman Quotes #945696
#16. Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.

Selena Gomez

Rose Schneiderman Quotes #1020143
#17. That's what being in love looks like. I didn't have that, and I wanted it.

But then you found it.

I did, but that doesn't mean you won't. Love isn't a finite thing in the universe. It's not like it gets used up by people who got there first.

Melanie Harlow

Rose Schneiderman Quotes #1123613
#18. 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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#19. 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 burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

Rose Schneiderman

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

Rose Schneiderman

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#21. 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

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#22. 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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#23. 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

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#24. 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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#25. 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

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#26. Drop dead-but first get permit

Robert A. Heinlein

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#27. I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.

Rose Schneiderman

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#28. 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

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

Rose Schneiderman

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#30. The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

Franz Stampfl

Rose Schneiderman Quotes #1757619
#31. 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

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#32. 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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#33. Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.

D. B. Weiss

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