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
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.
We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.
The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.
We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.
I want to be remembered as one who tried.
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.