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We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.
Nat Hentoff
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Nat Hentoff
Age: 91 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 10
Died: 2017
Died: January 7
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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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I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
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The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
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You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.
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There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.
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I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.
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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
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I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.
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[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.
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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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[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.
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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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A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.
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[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.
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At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.
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In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.
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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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