Nat Hentoff Quotes About Free Speech

Quotes about: Free Speech

• A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.

  Nat Hentoff

  Mean, Government, Trying

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

  Nat Hentoff

  Strong, Speech, Ownership

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.

  Nat Hentoff

  Reading, Coffee, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Thinking, Winning

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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