| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 550 |
| AUTHOR: | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969) |
| QUOTATION: | Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, annual message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 5, 1956.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956, p. 23.
Read before a joint session of Congress by a clerk of the House of Representatives. |
| SUBJECTS: | Equality |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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