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Rose Schneiderman

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

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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."

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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

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"I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives."

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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."

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"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."
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"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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"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."
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"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
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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."
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Rose Schneiderman
"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also."
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"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."
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