Quotes by Nat Hentoff

Nat Hentoff

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did – and he knew Gandhi slightly – he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.

Community

Pacifist

Violence

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[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

Barack

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[Barack Obama’s ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.

Mindset

President

Principles

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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.

Country

Ends

People

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[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.

Important

Littles

Principles

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[Bill Shawn] didn’t edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

Bills

Edits

Wanted

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[Cardinal John O’Connor] had [my wife] Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.

Couple

Kids

Scotch

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[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington’s band, but that’s now impossible.

Band

Dukes

Play

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[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she’d write it down.

Whole

Wish

Writing

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[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who’s now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.

Editors

Max

Stars

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