I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
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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…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c5/nat-hentoff-1615_chairman_a-j-muste-was-from-michigan-and-he-grew_1659284.jpg)
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