Quotes by Henry Hampton

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

— Henry Hampton

Life

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

— Henry Hampton

Wisdom

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

Life

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

— Henry Hampton

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom