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Nat Hentoff was an American historian known for his contributions to the fields of liberalism and the civil rights movement. Born on June 10, 1925, and passing away on January 7, 2017, Hentoff's work covered a wide range of topics, including music, literature, law, and social justice.

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“The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.”

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“Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.”

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“There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.”

Life Is Sacred Seamless

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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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“An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.”

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“If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject to a health commission just like in England which will decide if their lives are worth living much longer.”

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“In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.”

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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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“Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.”

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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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“[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.”

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

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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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“However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."”

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“I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.”

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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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“In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].”

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“The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.”

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“The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done nothing about that.”

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“He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.”

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“I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.”

People Has Beens Religious Atheist Admire

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“I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like [Barack] Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.”

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“[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.”

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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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“That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel.”

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“The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President [Barack] Obama.”

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“In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia”

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“Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health.”

Should Government Age Pay Conditions British Healthcare

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“The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.”

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“A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked President Obama how he would deal with this sort of thing, and Obama said we cannot consider the joy of life in this situation. He said I would advise her to take a pain killer. That is the essence of the President of the United States.”

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

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“You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.”

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“[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.”

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“I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.”

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“A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.”

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“[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.”

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“At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.”

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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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“In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.”

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“The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.”

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“As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.”

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“This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.”

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“I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.”

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“I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.”

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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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“A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.”

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“I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.”

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“When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret meeting of the Raleigh Tavern in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who did not agree with each other, started a Committee of Correspondence.”

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“Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.”

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About the Author

Born: June 10, 1925
Died: January 7, 2017
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 220

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