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on Tuesday, April 2, 2019Jennifer Siebel Newsom Money Quote saying there are dramatic financial consequences to the gap between men and women doing the same work. Jennifer Siebel Newsom said:
“In California alone, women lose 78.6 billion dollars to the wage gap. It’s time to end this injustice. It’s time to close the gap” — Jennifer Siebel Newsom
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In California alone, women lose 78.6 billion dollars to the wage gap. It’s time to end this injustice. It’s time to close the gap.
That’s why today, I was so proud to launch #EqualPayCA in partnership with @TIMESUPNOW and @CCSWG.
Join us: https://t.co/XTgjXRJPJ4 pic.twitter.com/IpOqCfgKcP
— Jennifer Siebel Newsom (@JenSiebelNewsom) April 1, 2019
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Voltaire: Weak Grovel Like Sheep
on Sunday, February 24, 2019Voltaire Money Quote saying The wealthy and powerful take advantage of the poor and vulnerable as though they were to be shorn and slaughtered. Voltaire said:
“Everywhere in the world, the weak detest the strong and grovel before them. And the strong treat them like flocks of sheep to be sold for their meat and wool” — Voltaire
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Frances Perkins: Law Compensate
on Wednesday, February 6, 2019Frances Perkins Money Quote saying she was driven by desire to see fair labor laws protecting children and poorly paid women as Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor. Frances Perkins said:
“From the time I was in college I was horrified at the work that many women and children had to do in factories. There were absolutely no effective laws that regulated the number of hours they were permitted to work. There were no provisions which guarded their health nor adequately looked after their compensation in case of injury” — Frances Perkins
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John Hancock: Wealthy Villainy
on Wednesday, January 23, 2019John Hancock Money Quote saying that people show more respect for a well-to-do villain than a good and honest man is worth slavery for those who hold that view. John Hancock said:
“That people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue” — John Hancock
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Alice Paul: Movement Sacrifice
on Friday, January 11, 2019Alice Paul Money Quote saying she would sacrifice everything important to most women for the suffrage movement and equal voting rights. Alice Paul said:
“My feeling about our movement, you see, is that it is so pregnant with possibilities that it is worth sacrificing everything for, leisure, money, reputation and even our lives” — Alice Paul
Born January 11, 1885 – Died July 9, 1977
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Franklin Roosevelt: Privilege for Few
on Sunday, January 6, 2019Franklin Roosevelt Money Quote saying expectations of our economic system are Equality, Jobs, Security, Civil Liberties and end of privilege for the few. Franklin Roosevelt said:
“The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are: Equality of opportunity for youth and for others. Jobs for those who can work. Security for those who need it. The ending of special privilege for the few. The preservation of civil liberties for all. The enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living” — Franklin Roosevelt
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Clara Barton: Less Man’s Pay
on Tuesday, December 25, 2018Clara Barton Money Quote saying she’s happy to work for no pay, unless paid less than a man for the same work – she refuses. Founder of the Red Cross, Clara Barton said:
“I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay” — Clara Barton
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Voltaire: Inveterate Hatred to Rich
on Thursday, December 20, 2018Voltaire Money Quote saying in Candide that the rich and poor despise each other but treat each other differently. Poor scrape to the rich, who in turn treat them horribly. Voltaire said:
“The poor in all parts of the world bear an inveterate hatred to the rich, even while they creep and cringe to them; and the rich treat the poor like sheep, whose wool and flesh they barter for money” — Voltaire
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