Dorothy Height — American Activist born on March 24, 1912, died on April 20, 2010

Dorothy Irene Height an American administrator and educator, was a civil rights and women's rights 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... (wikipedia)

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.
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.
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.
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.