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    Emanuel Celler

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


    — Emanuel Celler

    #another #because #hurt #jealous #people

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


    — Emanuel Celler

    #communism #feeds #hatred #imprisonment #men

    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. ↗


    — Emanuel Celler

    #ambition #behind #conscious #fiercely #i

    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 Celler

    #against #bills #civil #civil rights #commission

    I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration. ↗


    — Emanuel Celler

    #fought #had #i #immigration #restriction

    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 Celler

    #back #belong #brooklyn #climate #club

    Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness. ↗


    — Emanuel Celler

    #never #political #problem #solve #will

    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. ↗


    — Emanuel Celler

    #been #before #black #black or white #color

    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 Celler

    #different #few #food #furniture #homes

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


    — Emanuel Celler

    #author #convention #distinction #given #hearts






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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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