Quotes by Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height

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

Granted

Kind

Problem

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 long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

Long

Rights

Together

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

Inspirational

Inspiring

Perseverance

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

Littles

Poor

Powerful

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

Circles

Thinking

Years

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

Remembered

Want

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

Ifs

Ripe

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

Ifs

Ripe

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

Credit

Done

Worry

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

Benefits

Mother

Use

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Black Women

Boat

Building

Caring

Children

Circles

Credit

Done

Enforcement

Facts

Giving

Goal

Granted

Helping Others

Ideas

Ifs

Inspirational

Inspiring

Kind

Law

Littles

Long

Mother

Movement

Needs

Opportunity

People

Perseverance

Poor

Powerful

Problem

Progress

Race

Realizing

Remembered

Responsibility

Rights

Ripe

Self Esteem

Separation

Skills

Strong

Struggle

Thinking

Together

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Worry

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Quotes by Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height

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

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 long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

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

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

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

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

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

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

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

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