Nat Hentoff Quotes
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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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The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
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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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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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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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At least they people showed the world we could elect a black president.
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We disagree heavily on abortion with Margot Hentoff.
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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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I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.
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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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I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.
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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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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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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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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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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.