Dorothy Height Quotes

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• 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…
• My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.
• We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.
• I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.
• We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
• If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
• 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…
• If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
• We have to realize we are building a movement.
• 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…
• I want to be remembered as one who tried.
• The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
• We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a…
• Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
• 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.
• Without Community Service we wouldnot have a strong quality of Life
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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