W. Eugene Smith
American photojournalist (1918-1978)
Dorothy Irene Heightwas an African-American civil rights and women’s rights activist. She focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness.
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About the Dorothy Height
Dorothy Irene Heightwas an African-American civil rights and women’s rights activist. She focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. Height is credited as the first leader in the civil rights movement to recognize inequality for women and African Americans as problems that should be considered as a whole. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years. Height’s role in the “Big Six” civil rights movement was frequently ignored by the press due to sexism. In 1974, she was named to the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, which published the Belmont Report, a bioethics report in response to the infamous “Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
9 Quotes by Dorothy Height
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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.
Dorothy HeightAmerican activist (1912-2010)
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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.
Dorothy HeightAmerican activist (1912-2010)
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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.
Dorothy HeightAmerican activist (1912-2010)
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We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
Dorothy HeightAmerican activist (1912-2010)
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We have to realize we are building a movement.
Dorothy HeightAmerican activist (1912-2010)
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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 HeightAmerican activist (1912-2010)
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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 HeightAmerican activist (1912-2010)
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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.
Dorothy HeightAmerican activist (1912-2010)
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There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
Dorothy HeightAmerican activist (1912-2010)