John Hume - "You can't eat a flag"

On the anniversary of the death of John Hume, some poignant words of wisdom from the great man. "You can't eat a flag".

John Hume: You see, what he meant by that was it was on the streets of the time elections were taking place, as they always did with both sides waving flags. And young people are getting all excited. And my father was standing watching this with me, and he tapped me on the shoulder, and he said, “Don’t you get involved in that stuff, son”. I say, “Why not, Dad?”. And he says, “You can’t eat a flag”. In other words, what he was saying is that real politics is about the living standards, about social and economic development. It’s not about waving flags at one another.”