When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do you always do what you have to do.
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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.Dorothy Height
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.
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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.
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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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We're here from all over the country, from many different backgrounds,
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