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Quote from Emma Lazarus,


"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-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."


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Emma Lazarus (more quotes by Emma Lazarus or books by/about Emma Lazarus)


(1849-1887) American poet

Source:

"The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; appears on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903

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Freedom, Immigration

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