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
We're here from all over the country, from many different backgrounds,
I want to be remembered as one who tried.
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
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.
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 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.
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