Firsts Quotes by Nat Hentoff

[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that…

— Nat Hentoff

When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or…

— Nat Hentoff

Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in…

— Nat Hentoff

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

— Nat Hentoff

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The…

— Nat Hentoff

This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a…

— Nat Hentoff

[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He…

— Nat Hentoff

Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff.…

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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…

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When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress…

— Nat Hentoff

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have…

— Nat Hentoff

When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence.…

— Nat Hentoff

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

— Nat Hentoff

Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of…

— Nat Hentoff