“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, The New Colossus

The New Colossus (1883)

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American poet 1849–1887

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