When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

- Dorothy Height

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

- Dorothy Height

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

- Dorothy Height

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way…

- Dorothy Height

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who…

- Dorothy Height

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

- Dorothy Height

I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happ…

- Dorothy Height

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

- Dorothy Height

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go,…

- Dorothy Height