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Emanuel Celler

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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.


— Emanuel Celler


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


— Emanuel Celler


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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 Celler


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


— Emanuel Celler


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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.


— 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 Celler


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The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.


— Emanuel Celler


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


— Emanuel Celler


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


— Emanuel Celler


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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 Celler


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All of his grandparents immigrated from Germany; his paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were Jewish (his maternal grandfather was Catholic). Service in the House of Representatives
During his first twenty-two years in Congress 1923–1945 Celler's Brooklyn and Queens-based district was numbered as New York's 10th congressional district. This national origin system was structured to preserve the ethnic and religious status quo of the United States by reducing immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe thereby excluding many Jews Catholics Italians and others.

He was defeated in the 1972 primary becoming the most senior Representative to ever lose a primary. Emanuel Celler (May 6 1888–January 15 1981) 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.

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