Henry Hampton Quotes

• 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

  Impact, People, Way

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• If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

  Henry Hampton

  Race, America, Black

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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.

  Henry Hampton

  Crazy, Hands, Color

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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.

  Henry Hampton

  Boston, Class, People

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• Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

  Henry Hampton

  People, Needs, Poor

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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.

  Henry Hampton

  Gente, Importante, Hecho

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