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.
From Emanuel Celler
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
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.
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.
I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
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'.
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
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.
Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.
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