As to when Rose Schneiderman used the phrase "the worker must have bread but she must have roses, too", the most elegant, detailed, and annotated online historical tracing of the phrase's origin that I can find is at this link: http://www.greenstone.org/gree.... He dates it to a speech in 1912 in Ohio.
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As to when Rose Schneiderman used the phrase "the worker must have bread but she must have roses, too", the most elegant, detailed, and annotated online historical tracing of the phrase's origin that I can find is at this link: http://www.greenstone.org/gree.... He dates it to a speech in 1912 in Ohio.