Lilly Ledbetter quotes
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“Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.”
-- Lilly LedbetterSource : Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
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“There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.”
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“We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.”
-- Lilly LedbetterSource : Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
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“I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.”
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“Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.”
-- Lilly LedbetterSource : Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.
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“Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.”
-- Lilly LedbetterSource : "Lilly Ledbetter DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.
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“The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.”
-- Lilly LedbetterSource : Lilly Ledbetter's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
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“Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.”
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Source : Allegra Goodman (2010). “Intuition”, p.62, Atlantic Books Ltd
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Source : "Women in the US Senate: a guide to the 20 female senators" by Emma G. Keller, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2012.
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Source : "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.
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Source : Andrew Young (1994). “A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
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