I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly … - Emanuel Celler

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We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.

Emanuel Celler

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.

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Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

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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.

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The power to investigate is a great public trust.

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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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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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