2007-03-08 11:06:58 · 5 answers · asked by coruptedsoul3552 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"Give me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shores.
Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door"
That's what is written on her. It says that we are willing to accept everyone from the oppression of the rest of the world.
She was donated by the French, and supposedly was inspired by a scene scene during one of France's many battles where the artist saw a young girl lead a troop of children over a fence and into safety.
We are a classless nation that omits no impediments to the rights of its people.
She served as a beacon of hope to the millions of immigrants who came into NY Harbor during their journey here.
2007-03-08 11:11:59 · answer #1 · answered by Monc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She remains a symbol of freedom for starters. She stands in the middle of the harbor where many immigrants to the US landed in the late 19th and early 20th century and made their first steps to becoming citizens. Most people have an ancestor who passed by the Statue on the way to Ellis Island and freedom. Freedom as only those who yearned for a better way of life, for a life in the proverbial land of the free could understand. "Give me your tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to be free". Freedom that I'm afraid many of us natural born citizens take for granted.
2007-03-08 12:51:43 · answer #2 · answered by lwjksu89 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poem by Emma Lazarus on it which begins "Give me your tired, your poor...." is an open invitation for anyone to come to America and live the American Dream.
2007-03-08 11:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by worldwise1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the first thing the immigrants saw when they came to America (approaching NY harbor).
2007-03-08 11:12:55 · answer #4 · answered by CS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know that it is anymore.
2007-03-08 11:10:03 · answer #5 · answered by balderarrow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋