"It is the purpose of the majority of……" — Emanuel Celler
"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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32 Quotes by Emanuel Celler
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The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts…
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Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition,…
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The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970…
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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…
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I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
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Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.
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I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose…
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I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I…
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In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had…
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My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started…
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My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
— Noam Chomsky
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
— James Madison
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