Rights Quotes by Nat Hentoff

10 Rights quotes by Nat Hentoff

Hentoff’s journalism often highlighted civil liberties. In ten succinct quotes, you’ll see his clear‑cut take on the subject.

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In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

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[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

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My - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but…

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

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Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war…

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I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense…

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

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As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due…

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I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a…

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I'm working on "Living the Bill of Rights," and it's about people - well, it starts with Brennan and Douglas as people…

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My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned…

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

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My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because…

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My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when…

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We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

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Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

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[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each…

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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…

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I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of…

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If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject…

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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.

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That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are…

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I read like everybody - like every other writer.

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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.

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