Emanuel Celler Quotes

• The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

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• The study of music was a family interest.

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• My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

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• I didn’t know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

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• I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

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• I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

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• In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

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• It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

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• Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men’s minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

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  Tags in Communism, Imprisonment, Men, Minds

• Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

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• I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

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• My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

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• On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

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  Tags in Equality, Peoples, Immigration

• Roosevelt’s magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

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  Tags in Person, Magic

• The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

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• Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

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• People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

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• The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

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• The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.

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  Tags in Inferior, Complex, Europe

• The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

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Emanuel Celler (29)

Birth:	6th May, 1888
Death:	15th January, 1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Emanuel Celler was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an American politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was the first Democrat to ever serve his district and was the fourth longest-serving congressman in history and the longest-serving member of either house of Congress in New York's history. A practicing lawyer before entering politics, he was particularly involved in issues relating to the judiciary and immigration. He graduated from Columbia College, New York City and earned law degree from Columbia Law School, Columbia University.

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