Henry Hampton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Race #America #Black
Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
-- Henry Hampton

#People #Needs #Poor
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

#People #Important #Done
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
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
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

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!
I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

Henry Hampton famous quotes

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