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He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of it.
Nat Hentoff
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Nat Hentoff
Age: 91 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 10
Died: 2017
Died: January 7
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[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.
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Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.
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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 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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That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.
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[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.
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I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
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A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.
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My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.
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I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.
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However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, evil.
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[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].
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[Barack Obama] pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated.
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Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of [Barack] Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their deity.
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The [George W.] Bush administration would go into court on any kind of a case that they thought might embarrass them and would argue that it was a state secret and the case should not be continued.[Barack] Obama is doing the same thing, even though he promised not to.
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[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.
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The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.
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My - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but he has done more harm to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights than any president since John Adams.
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I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.
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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.
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