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I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
Nat Hentoff
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Nat Hentoff
Age: 91 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 10
Died: 2017
Died: January 7
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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 Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
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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 father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.
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Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].
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