Nat Hentoff Quotes
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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 am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.
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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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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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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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Barack Obama's only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
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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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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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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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Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.
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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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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 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 can't think of a single area where Barack Obama is not destructive.
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Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.
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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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At least they people showed the world we could elect a black president.
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Left are very hesitant to criticize Barack Obama, but that is beginning to change.
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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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A.J. Muste was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.