Emanuel Celler quotes
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“Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“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 way I had betrayed my trust.”
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“The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.”
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“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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“If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.”
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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.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of 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 of honest men.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.”
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“In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“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.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“The power to investigate is a great public trust.”
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“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.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.”
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“We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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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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“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.”
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“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 are clear.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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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 fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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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.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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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.”
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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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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“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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“My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.”
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“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? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?”
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“We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.”
-- Emanuel Celler
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