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 Quote

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 Quote

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
- Emanuel Celler Quote

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.
- Emanuel Celler Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Emanuel Celler Quote

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

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 Quote

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.
- Emanuel Celler Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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 Quote

The study of music was a family interest.
- Emanuel Celler Quote

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 Celler Quote