I read like everybody - like every other writer. Nat Hentoff More Quotes by Nat Hentoff More Quotes From Nat Hentoff [Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer. Nat Hentoff wellseditors Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip [of Jules Feiffer]. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that. Nat Hentoff racisteditorsrunning I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of the piece, another emissary came and said, `Bob [Dylan] is willing to speak to you now.' And I said with great pleasure, `No, thanks. The piece is over.' Nat Hentoff piecesbandguy William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about. Nat Hentoff editorsmenyears Bill Clinton outshines John Adams in that regard. Nat Hentoff regardbillsclinton Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president. Nat Hentoff untrustworthybillspresident When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215. Nat Hentoff ambassadorsletterswriting In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some other kind of sentence, you have the right to petition a federal court to review what happened to you. And until [Bill] Clinton, you had three, four, five, even more years I collect records of people who have been on death row for eight, 10, 12, 14 years - this is before Clinton - who finally got a decent lawyer, usually a pro bono lawyer, and an investigator, and were able to find out - they - they're but approved that they're - that they were innocent. Nat Hentoff eightmeancountry As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.' Nat Hentoff rightslawchildren I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me. Nat Hentoff new-yorkboysbook This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X. Nat Hentoff new-yorkmenbook 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. Nat Hentoff liberalismincludingspokes The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime. Nat Hentoff habeas-corpustoughbills 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. Nat Hentoff haterightsthinking When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton. Nat Hentoff weekendrocksrunning I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points. Nat Hentoff violenceuse 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. Nat Hentoff panthersblackviolence Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better. Nat Hentoff civicsclassschool Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it. Nat Hentoff dylanbobsingers
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