43 Quotes by Dorothy Height

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.

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

We're here from all over the country, from many different backgrounds,

She said it in her gentle manner but with the same vigor of the prophets of old as they struck injustice,

She has made his teachings something that will live for a long time. She took the King philosophy seriously and she worked at it. And it was not a thing for show. It was for helping them instill in their own lives the principles that he had taught.

But we're all in the same boat now, and we've got to learn to work together.

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

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.