Quotes by Lilly Ledbetter - Page 1

There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.
Lilly Ledbetter / Activist
Women
Dirty
Matter
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In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.
Lilly Ledbetter / Activist
Dime
In The End
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Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.
Lilly Ledbetter / Activist
Sound
Three
Twenties
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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.
Lilly Ledbetter / Activist
Differences
Lasts
Made
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Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
Lilly Ledbetter / Activist
Men
Add
Cents
Dollars
Pennies
Real
Men Women Money
Dollar
Earn
Women Money Men
Real Money
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The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.
Lilly Ledbetter / Activist
Court
Decades
Supreme
Supreme Court
Decision Me Know
Nearly
Complaint
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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 Ledbetter / Activist
Court
Decision
Equal
Equal Pay
Pay
Retirement
Supreme
Supreme Court
Ten
American
Side
Woman
Fight
Equal Work
Overtime
Sought
Stood
Ten Years
Took
Value
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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 Ledbetter / Activist
Equal Pay
Fighting
Retirement
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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 Ledbetter / Activist
Men
Alabama
Decades
Nineteen
Plant
Tire
Two
Years
Nearly
Less Money
Manager
Similar
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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 Ledbetter / Activist
Economy
Pay
President
President Obama
Work Me Day
Act
Obama
Sure
Bill
Side
Works
Fair
Says
Signed
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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 Ledbetter / Activist
Law
Mean
Thinking
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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 Ledbetter / Activist
Jobs
Badass
Islands
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