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Voice Quotes by Nat Hentoff

11 Voice quotes by Nat Hentoff

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If you’re curious about how Nat Hentoff frames the idea of speaking out, these eleven snippets give a quick taste of his perspective. They capture his knack for weighing words against society’s louder clamor, offering a compact yet resonant look at why a voice matters.

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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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The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when…

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I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally…

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I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I…

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[William Shawn] took over The Voice and tried to turn it into New York Magazine - very glitzy covers that promised practically…

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Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really…

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I like [John Cardinal O'Connor] a lot. He - I started a - to know him - when I asked William Shawn…

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I got a letter one day from somebody saying, 'You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker…

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After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do…

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Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice…

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I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on,…

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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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There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to…

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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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