43 Quotes by Dorothy Height

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

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

We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

Without Community Service we wouldnot have a strong quality of Life

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

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.

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

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.