What is the quote that is inscribed below The Statue Of Liberty? Thanks!
2007-03-14 07:23:37 · 4 answers · asked by Desert Rose 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It's just one line that I'm looking for, not the actual poem itself.
Is it, "They that can give up liberty to get safety..." or something like that?
2007-03-14 07:37:22 · update #1
"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."
2007-03-14 07:26:58 · answer #1 · answered by Joy M 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Quote On Statue Of Liberty
2016-12-18 04:30:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Statue Of Liberty Quote
2016-10-03 06:14:54 · answer #3 · answered by kroner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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The statue of liberty!
France gave us the Statue of Liberty. But why? In 1865, France felt that it needed to show some support over the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. And so at a dinner party it was discussed that a monument would be a good example. At this party was Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, a sculptor. He made a small clay model of a women representing liberty in 1870. Then in 1871 he traveled to the US and saw Bedloe Island in Upper New York Bay, where the star-shaped Fort Wood was. He felt this was the spot for his statue! So, in 1875 France began raising money for this statue. And in 1876 Bartholdi began constructing it in a studio in sections. His mother's face inspired the head, but the model and later his wife's {Jeanne-Emilie Baheux de Puysieux} body was the inspiration for the rest of it.
The statue was taller than a 14 story building. It had to be constructed outside. Bartholdi made plaster models in different sizes and then carpenters made wooden molds. Copper sheets were placed into these molds and shaped and hammered into the womanly figure it was suppose to be. Then these penny thin copper shapes were riveted into their proper places on an iron framework designed by Alexandre-Gustav Eiffel, more popularly known for designing the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
On August 5, 1884 a 6-ton granite block was laid on Bedloe Island within the 5-star shaped walls that remained of Fort Wood. The block was the cornerstone for the statue's pedestal. The Statue arrived in the New York harbor in June 1885. And it was slowly put together. In order to get the flame to shine, two rows of holes were cut and covered with glass plates so that an electric light could shine through. On October 28, 1886 President Grover Cleveland was to dedicate the statue.
At that time, women were commonly excluded from public events, esp. if important. Well the suffragette movement didn't take this too well. Some of the more aggressive women rented boats and sailed near the island and shouted, disrupting speeches. Their issue is that the statue being honored is of a woman, and yet if she were alive and real, she'd be unable to attend the event and unable to vote in the US or France.
When the veil was taken and away and the statue revealed many were in awe and it became instantly popular. She was nicknamed "Lady Liberty." In 1924 the Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island were declared a national monument by President Calvin Coolidge. In 1965 Ellis Island became a part of the Statue of Liberty Monument.
From 1984 to 1986 Lady Liberty got a make-over, face-lift or renovated as some call it. All iron was replaced with stainless steel in her interior and the old flame was totally replaced with a new copper one with gold plating.
Inscribed on the Statue of Liberty are words from Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" with the last words the most popular:
Give me your tired,
your poor,
Your huddled masses
yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse
of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
the tempest-tost, to me,
I lift my lamp beside
the golden door!
2007-03-14 07:47:23 · answer #4 · answered by amir18 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Colossus poem [which everyone says is inscribed below the Statue] is actually incribed in the interior of it, not the outside.
2007-03-14 07:32:29 · answer #5 · answered by iwastotallynotexpectingthat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
- Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus," 1883
2007-03-14 07:29:03 · answer #6 · answered by Strawberryblonde 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-14 07:26:33 · answer #7 · answered by Fester Frump 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
it depends...
2016-08-23 21:09:26 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋