Nat Hentoff Quotes - Page 7

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• I've - that I regret. That was stupid and ignorant on my part. I went to a party as a guest of a friend of mine, a lawyer. And he had a client who I didn't know, except - maybe I'm pretending I didn't know, but he was a big investor in The New Yorker. And as I found out later in a book about The New Yorker, this guy was very unhappy about [Bill] Shawn.He thought Shawn was spending out - spending too much money on writers.

  Nat Hentoff

  Regret, Stupid, Party

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I'm working on "Living the Bill of Rights," and it's about people - well, it starts with Brennan and Douglas as people who not only live the Bill of Rights, but try to shape the reason for that.

  Nat Hentoff

  Rights, People, Trying

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday nights, the editors would cut out - literally cut out passages, sometimes whole paragraphs, of some of the writers that might possibly offend blacks, lesbians, gays, radicals. And I wrote a couple of columns about that. And they're - of course, they were annoyed that I had written about it, but, I mean, it - another example - and [my wife Margot] always also conjured that.

  Nat Hentoff

  Monday, Couple, Mean

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.

  Nat Hentoff

  Voice, Used, Aspect

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

  Nat Hentoff

  Perfect, Wife, One Day

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

  Nat Hentoff

  Thinking, Late, Died

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

  Nat Hentoff

  Obamacare, Example, Want

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• [Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have no business getting into this argument at all unless they're going to be pro-choice. But it turns out that a fair number of fetuses are male, and besides that, we are all one part of humankind, it seems to me.

  Nat Hentoff

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject to a health commission just like in England which will decide if their lives are worth living much longer.

  Nat Hentoff

  Government, People, Age

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.

  Nat Hentoff

  People, Black, President

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

  Nat Hentoff

  Race, Riding, Barack

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• In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Thinking, Virginia

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

  Nat Hentoff

  Becoming, Unemployment, Statistics

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

  Nat Hentoff

  Thinking, Barack, Areas

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.

  Nat Hentoff

  Party, Son, Boston

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are acting for themselves as it happened with the Sons of Liberty which spread throughout the colonies. That was a very important awakening in this country.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Party, Son

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, School, Rights

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Reform, Dollars

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, School, Arms

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• [John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

  Nat Hentoff

  Gone, May, Regimes

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Phones, Government

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.

  Nat Hentoff

  Technology, Government, Insidious

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• [People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.

  Nat Hentoff

  People, Doubt, May

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Talking, People

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

  Nat Hentoff

  Backbone, Foreign Policy, Policy

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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