Platform
The platform of the American Party called for, among other things:
- Severe limits on immigration, especially from Catholic countries.
- Restricting political office to native-born Americans of English and/or Scottish lineage and Protestant persuasion.
- Mandating a wait of 21 years before an immigrant could gain citizenship.
- Restricting public school teacher positions to Protestants.
- Mandating daily Bible readings in public schools.
- Restricting the sale of liquor.
- Restricting the use of languages other than English.
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Famous quotes containing the word platform:
“I have never yet spoken from a public platform about women in industry that someone has not said, “But things are far better than they used to be.” I confess to impatience with persons who are satisfied with a dangerously slow tempo of progress for half of society in an age which requires a much faster tempo than in the days that “used to be.” Let us use what might be instead of what has been as our yardstick!”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“It was a favor for which to be forever silent to be shown this vision. The earth beneath had become such a flitting thing of lights and shadows as the clouds had been before. It was not merely veiled to me, but it had passed away like the phantom of a shadow, skias onar, and this new platform was gained. As I had climbed above storm and cloud, so by successive days’ journeys I might reach the region of eternal day, beyond the tapering shadow of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)