Status Updates From The Nat Hentoff Reader

Another thing about being married to Lorraine, Dizzy [Gillespie] told me, was "she does not want to be wrong. So I just let her be right all the time. That's a harmony that works-you just be wrong all the time." Dizzy laughed.

[Dorothy Kilgallen, "an active Catholic and political conservative," and most remembered as a long time What's My Line panelist testified in defense of Lenny Bruce. "They are words, Mr. Kuh. Words, words, words." The author did as well.] Lenny once got a note from an Episcopalian minister: "Thank you for caring so much about life." And that, of course, as Lenny knew, was what did him in.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stated that clearest and most powerful need for the perennial protection of the First Amendment: "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment that any other, it is the principle of free thought-not for the thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."