Nat Hentoff Quotes
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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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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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The media ignores what is really going on.
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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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I think one thing we share with my wife is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
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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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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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Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.
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As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'
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I say personally because I am 84 years old, and Barack Obama's is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.
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Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by Francesco Mussolini.
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A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.
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We disagree heavily on abortion with Margot Hentoff.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
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Left are very hesitant to criticize Barack Obama, but that is beginning to change.
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Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.
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Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.
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I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.
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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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We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.
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I can't think of a single area where Barack Obama is not destructive.
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I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.