Hendrik Hertzberg Quotes

#1. Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

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#2. Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

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#3. The "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

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#4. A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

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#5. The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

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#6. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

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#7. Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

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