We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.
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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.Dorothy Height
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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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
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The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.
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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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