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Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an American administrator and educator who worked as a civil rights and women's rights activist, specifically focused on the issues of African-American women, including 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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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.

Responsibility, Caring, Race, Races, Joint

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

Ifs, Ripe, Ripen, Time

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, Kaleidoscope, Keep, Life, Thinking, Years

We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

Boat, Same, See

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.

Afford, Boat, Needs, See, Separation

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.

Rights, Long, Together, Way, Civil

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

Caring, Credit, Done, Needs, Progress

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, Same, Take

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, Measured, Overcome, Perseverance, Woman

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

Effective, Enforcement, Law, Rights

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

Want, Remembered, Tried

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.

Black, Black Women, Seldom, Want, Woman

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.

Children, Facts, Inspirational, Respect, Work

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.

Give, Giving, Improve, Know, Opportunity, Skills

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

Ifs, Ripe, Ripen, Times