Dorothy Height
Dorothy Height
Dorothy Irene Height an American administrator and educator, was a civil rights and women's rights activist specifically focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth24 March 1912
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
I want to be remembered as one who tried.
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.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
Without Community Service we wouldnot have a strong quality of Life
My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.
We have to realize we are building a movement.
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.
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.
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 happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding
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, but we have to go that way together.
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
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.
If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.