Dorothy Height Quotes
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Dorothy Height Quotes & Sayings
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Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
— Dorothy Height
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
I want to be remembered as one who tried.
— Dorothy Height
The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
— Dorothy Height
A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
— Dorothy Dunnett
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
We have to realize we are building a movement.
— Dorothy Height
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
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
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
— Dorothy Height
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
— Dorothy Height
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
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
We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.
— Dorothy Height
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
— Dorothy Height