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Patricia Ireland

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

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Patricia Ireland is highlighting that flight attendants earn very low wages, to the point where some of the newest employees need government assistance to afford basic food. This example is used to show a clear inequality in how these workers are compensated despite their important roles.

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.