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

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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

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

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African-American women seldom do just what we want to do but always do what we have to do.

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Too many of our young people know only where we are now, not how we got here nor where we are going. Too many see doors only recently opened and do not appreciate how they got pried ajar.... We must always be a strong presence, an unrelenting force working for equality and justice until the freedom gates are fully open.

Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height

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Born: March 24, 1912

Died: April 20, 2010 (aged 98)

Bio: 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.

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