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Dorothy Height quotes: Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Dorothy Height quotes: I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

Dorothy Height quotes: I want to be remembered as one who tried.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

Dorothy Height quotes: The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

Dorothy Height quotes: Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Dorothy Height quotes: We have to realize we are building a movement.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Dorothy Height quotes: 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.

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.

Dorothy Height quotes: If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

If
you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

Dorothy Height quotes: 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

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.

Dorothy Height quotes: The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Dorothy Height quotes: My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

Dorothy Height quotes: If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

Dorothy Height quotes: If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.

If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.

Dorothy Height quotes: 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.

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.

Dorothy Height quotes: We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.

We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.

Dorothy Height quotes: A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.