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Dorothy Height

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


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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.


— Dorothy Height


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


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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


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We have to realize we are building a movement.


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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.


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On May 21 2010 a Call Box was dedicated to Dr. While there Dorothy Height developed leadership training programs and interracial and ecumenical education programs. She was later interred at Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Brentwood Maryland.

Dorothy Irene Height (March 24 1912 – April 20 2010) was an American administrator educator and a Civil Rights and Women's Rights activist specifically focused on the issues of African American women. Some issues Dorothy Height worked on are 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.

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