"Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together."

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Source : "Gay Community Loses Black Civil Rights Ally Dorothy Height" by Irene Monroe, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2010.

Dorothy Height

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“I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?”
“I'd rather have a 16, as in Stanley Cup playoff wins.”
“If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.”
“I feel it is important to point out that individuals can make a difference, that things that seem impossible one day might suddenly shift into a possibility the next day.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop. But at least he will have me to look out for him.”
“When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.”
“And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.”
“First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.”

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