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I want to be remembered as one who tried.
Dorothy Height / Educator
Remembered
Want
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We have to realize we are building a movement.
Dorothy Height / Educator
Building
Movement
Realizing
Realize
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If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
Dorothy Height / Educator
Ifs
Ripe
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We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
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If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
Dorothy Height / Educator
Ifs
Ripe
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We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.
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People
Problem
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If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.
Dorothy Height / Educator
Credit
Done
Worry
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The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.
Dorothy Height / Educator
Black
Black Women
Struggle
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Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
Dorothy Height / Educator
Caring
Needs
Progress
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There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.
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Enforcement
Law
Rights
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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 Height / Educator
Granted
Kind
Problem
Woman
Problems
Same Things
She
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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 / Educator
Black
Black Women
Want
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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 / Educator
Benefits
Mother
Use
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The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
Dorothy Height / Educator
Goal
Ideas
Self Esteem
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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 Height / Educator
Inspirational
Inspiring
Women
Greatness
Opposition
Perseverance
Accomplishes
Overcome
Man
He
Woman
Goals
He Or She
His
Measured
Reach
She
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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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Inspirational
Children
Facts
Save
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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 / Educator
Littles
Poor
Powerful
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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 / Educator
Boat
Needs
Separation
Yourself
Afford
Same
Cannot
See
Separate
We Cannot
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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.
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Long
Rights
Together
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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 / Educator
Inspiring
Quality
Community
Community Service
Helping Others
Important
Quality Of Life
Strong
Way
Person
Grow
Without
Develop
Would
Ourselves
Well
Recipient
Serve
Which
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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 Height / Educator
Respect
Civil Rights
Contradiction
Enforcement
Human Rights
Law Enforcement
Rights
Taken
Civil
Dr
Dr. King
Effective
Fashions
Stir
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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.
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Opportunity
Giving
Manipulate
Skills
Life Never Know
Also
Often
Give
Improve
System
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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 Height / Educator
Backgrounds
Caring
Creeds
Dignity
Quiet
Race
Responsibility
All Races
Colors
Coming
Feeling
Joint
Races
Status
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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
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Circles
Thinking
Years
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