Nat Hentoff Quotes
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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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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.
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We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.
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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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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
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People felt good even though they didn't really know much about Barack Obama and may have had some doubts.
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Søren Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.
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William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.
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I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.
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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 once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.
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We disagree heavily on abortion with Margot Hentoff.
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I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.
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My father was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.
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Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
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Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.
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A.J. Muste was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.