Dorothy Height Quotes
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.
Height, Dorothy. Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir. PublicAffairs, 2003.
As he signed the Declaration of Independence John Hancock stated "We must all be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together." Franklin replied:
Dorothy Irene Height was an African American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of African American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. Height is credited as the first leader in the civil rights movement to recognize inequality for women and African Americans as problems that should be considered as a whole. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years.