Emanuel Celler Quotes

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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.
• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
• The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications…
• 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…
• I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
• Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
• My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now?…
• The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
• As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.
• I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.
• For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a…
• The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
• The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.
• The study of music was a family interest.
• If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

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