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Quotes from Bread upon the Waters — Rose Pesotta

1896–1965 United States

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Compulsory military training is conducive to waging wars rather than to the maintenance of peace.

Bread upon the Waters (1945)

While we are engaged in a global war nothing is too costly for the armed forces. Billions are poured into the making of implements of destruction.

Bread upon the Waters (1945)

The Smith-Connally bill's passage marked the beginning of an organized effort to wreck bona fide unions through legislation.

Bread upon the Waters (1945)

Rightfully, there have been outspoken demands by labor for a place at the peace table, to insure future amity among the world's nations and security for the working masses.

Bread upon the Waters (1945)

To my mind, too, painfully little space was given in the daily press to recent coal mine disasters in which miners perished through underground fires or explosions.

Bread upon the Waters (1945)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rose Pesotta (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.