Political Quotes

“I think it bears saying that Dorothy Height, who is a District resident, although she lived for many years in New York, is indeed a great American leader among us and one of a kind. There is no comparable leader in American life today because she was a guiding light. She is about 90 years old, still going as strong as any of us on this floor. She was a guiding light in the achievements we have made thus far for equal rights in America today. At the 40th anniversary on the March on Washington we just celebrated on August 23, some of us noted that Dorothy Height had the same position. She was president of the National Council of Negro Women then, but she was not included in the leaders that put on the march because she was a woman, and yet this is a woman who has stood for the rights of people of color and women equally. She is unique in the sense that when particularly black people were confused about whether one could be equally for women and for African Americans, she was a leader to say there is no such bifurcation in human rights.”