I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.
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
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
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
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
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…
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time. - Dorothy Height
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
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
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.
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
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,…
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