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At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.
Nat Hentoff
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Nat Hentoff
Age: 91 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 10
Died: 2017
Died: January 7
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I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.
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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
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After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that `Bill Shawn will stay here as long as he wants to be here.' Well, he wanted to be here until he died, but he wasn't allowed to.
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The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.
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[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.
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I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.
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Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.
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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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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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Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.
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I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.
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