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marching in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens,
a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance
that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing:
“Bread and roses! Bread and roses!”
-JAMES OPPENHEIM
The Lawrence Mill strike of 1913 was waged for the usual reasons: wages, hours and conditions.
It’s still true in this world of alienation, loneliness
and economic injustice: Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread
but give us roses! One young woman, however, carried a sign that read:
WE WANT BREAD AND WE WANT ROSES, TOO. The strike came to be known as the
“Bread & Roses” strike.
6 color front on black
Adult S-3XL