She said it in her gentle manner but with the same vigor of the prophets of old as they struck injustice.
"Dorothy Irene Height" an United States/American Public administration/administrator and educator, was a civil rights and women's rights Activism/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'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.
We have to realize we are building a movement.
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.
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.
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.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can,t take the same things for granted.
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.
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