Bread and liberty are the same thing

What is the National Assembly?

Originally, the National Assembly was known as the Third Estate. According to Sieyés, the Third Estate is everything, it has been nothing, and it wants to become something. The National Assembly formed when the Third Estate elected to call itself the National Assembly, comprising mostly of delegates from the Third Estate who represented the common person. While the other two estates in the Estates General dealt with minority groups of the nobility and clergy, the third estate dealt with a people who were in the majority but underrepresented in the Estates General. By transforming into a National Assembly which had significantly more power and, at least ideally, fairer representation of the common man, the National Assembly aimed to completely change the French government and to give the power back to the people. 

Does the National Assembly actually represent the common person?

The common person at the time did not care about the technical process of gaining liberty and equality. When the National Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, peasants were guaranteed equality before the law and individual freedom. The problem was this declaration had no real-world effect for the starving and poor peasants of rural France. The economy was not fixed through this declaration; it simply placed the wealthier liberal elites on the same level as the nobility. Even though serfdom was abolished, peasants did not have any land to sustain themselves on their own. The National Assembly did not make any real change for the majority of the people through these declarations- they were just words. 

When the National Assembly put an end to the tithes people had been paying to the church, they cut the funding for women who looked to the church and relied on its assistance in order to survive. These displaced women marched to Versailles and demanded that some real action be taken. One women yelled "That's not the point: the point is that we want bread." This signified the issues that the common person had with the National Assembly: they were making no real changes for the living conditions of the common person. The people did not want revolutionary words that hardly affected them; the common people just wanted bread.