Henry Hampton quotes
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“If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.”
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“Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.”
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“Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.”
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“On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.”
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“We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.”
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“What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.”
-- Henry Hampton
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