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 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
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 in which we ourselves grow and develop.
We have to realize we are building a movement.
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
Without Community Service we wouldnot have a strong quality of Life
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
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.
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.
I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.
The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.
We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
I want to be remembered as one who tried.