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Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes QUOTES

Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes QUOTES

1 " The bloody dawn of the day of freedom will be followed by more slaughter", he wrote, "but in the end the people will triumph. "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

2 " In the working class, Haywood thundered, no one is a foreigner. "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

3 " Rose traveled to Patterson to address a meeting of more than 2,000 strikers and their supporters, urging them to stick together and slamming the press for its hostile coverage "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

4 " Among the diners were two young Americans, Anna Strunsky and William English Walling. Having first met in the United States, they had crossed paths again in Russia, where they were each gathering material for magazine articles. The shock of seeing the student killed brought them closer. As the melodramatic Anna wrote to her brother, "Our love which has been filling our hearts from the hour of our first meeting suddenly burst into speech. It was was baptized in blood. "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

5 " The Greenwich Village circles in which Rose and Graham now moved included such figures as the muckraker Lincoln Steffens, the future Catholic radical activist Dorothy Day, and the heiress Mabel Dodge, of whom Steffens wrote, "She read everything, she believed- for aw while-everything, she backed everything. "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

6 " Throughout the sprawling Russian Empire, there were often more troops in places with restive populations that were not ethnically Russian. In Augustów, that meant Poles and Jews. The latter had long been the officially sanctioned scapegoats for all the ills of the creaky realm of the Romanovs, with it corrupt and in inefficient bureaucracy. Famine deaths? Jewish grain dealers hoarding all the wheat. Debt? Jewish moneylenders. Disease? Spread by the Jews, of course. Defeats on the battlefield? The Jews were spying for the enemy. "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

7 " And so three couples, each consisting of a wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestant man married to a Russian Jewish woman of much more humble background, were soon living on the island together. The three women, in fact had been born within a few hundred miles of each other in the Pale of Settlement. All six were now passionately involved in the socialist movement, and Rose liked to refer to their mates not as husbands but as "comrade-lovers "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

8 " ..."The man or woman who deliberately foregoes these blessings", "whether from viciousness, coldness, shallow-heartedness, self-indulgence, or mere failure to appreciate aright the difference between the difference between the all-important and the unimportant,-why, such a creature merits contempt as hearty as any visited upon the solider who runs away in battle. "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

9 " Though they often prospered in business, Russia's Jews faced almost insuperable barriers to obtaining a university education or a government job. Only one of the empire's five million Jewish citizens, for example, managed to become an army officer. "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

10 " When it came to the question of whether Jews and Christians should mix however, "Zelda" was so ardently uncompromising that she clearly was reflecting Rose's own feelings. Marriage was very much on the minds of her readers, and among the most numerous tradesmen on the Lower East Side were shadkhanim, or Jewish matchmakers. Rose repeatedly warned Jewish women against allowing themselves to be courted by Christian men. She also strongly opposed placing adopted Jewish children in Christian homes. "Our children MUST be kept away from all Christianizing influence. "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

11 " In July 1917, Graham and Rose left the Socialist Party. They signed their joint letter of resignation "Fraternally", and told their comrades that "we with withdraw not because we have ceased to be Socialists", but because party machines should now join the effort "to overcome the Prussian war machine". Graham had far more martial enthusiasm than Rose but, with mixed feelings, on this issue she followed his lead. Moreover, as she acknowledged in a magazine piece, "it is not easy to remain seated when everybody is asking as loudly and clearly as eyes and faces can ask why you refuse to honor your country". "

― Adam Hochschild , Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes