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Vote: | Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I consider the Museum potentially an institution that can not only look at the history but create an environment in which black and white people can come together and talk and share some tears and have some fun. Because history is fun when you really go back and begin picking it apart and making it yours. |
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Vote: | If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption. |
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Vote: | Maybe if you don't have a family you feel more of an obligation to give some back. But maybe more of a reason why I do it is the period of history I came through. It seems inconceivable that, after the sixties, we are going to give up trying to make a contribution to society - man idea which today in the eighties seems to be more of an anomaly than a given. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | What we need to do is find the same kind of trigger that opened up the power of the Civil Rights movement. Once you get it going, once you've caught it correctly, you really do have the capacity to move and you can't let the media-swamp in which you're mired affect your view about the possibility of change. |
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Vote: | When I was fifteen, I had polio. My father had the vaccine in his office but it was brand new so he didn't give it to us. |
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Henry Hampton, August 19, 1940-November 22, 1998, was the founder of film production company Blackside Inc. where he produced ''Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965).
Education Hampton attended Washington University in St. Louis.
He was the recipient of 13 (14?) honorary degrees, including his alma mater, Brandeis University, Boston College, and Tufts University in Boston.
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