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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
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 immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership of the president, so that people who had a right to asylum or to petition - for asylum who were legal residents are now unable to go through because that part of the bill has been taken out.
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[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].
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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 that he hates the Bill of Rights. He does what he figures will help him politically.
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Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.
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[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.
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Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.
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We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.
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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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I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.
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I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.
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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
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[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.
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The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.
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There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.
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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 acting for themselves as it happened with the Sons of Liberty which spread throughout the colonies. That was a very important awakening in this country.
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I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.
Nat Hentoff
Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].
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Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you're fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.
Nat Hentoff
A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.
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