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Emma Lazarus: Give me your tired, your poor

“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

—Emma Lazarus, poet and playwright [from a poem written to raise funds for building the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty]


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