Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really had the most distinctive writing style, even more than mine, than I've ever seen in this business.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time.

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

Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.

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