Nat Hentoff Quotes
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The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.
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A.J. Muste never engaged in violence but he believed, as Mahatma Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.
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Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.
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Barack Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.
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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.
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then interview to Rolling Stones. I follow his career.
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Barack Obama's only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
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Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.
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When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.
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Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of Barack Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their "deity."
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What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for The New Republic, I would feel diminished because the owner had done such a thing fire a journalist.
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I think one thing we share with my wife is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
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Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.
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Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.
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As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the Barack Obama administration.
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Left are very hesitant to criticize Barack Obama, but that is beginning to change.
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There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.
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A.J.Muste died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.
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I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.
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I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like Barack Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.
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The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
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At least they people showed the world we could elect a black president.
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We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.