"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."
2007-07-28 19:20:08 · 2 answers · asked by Richard B 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It was Emma Lazarus who said those famous lines which caught national imagination and continue to inspire the way people think about freedom and exile today.
Written in 1883, her celebrated poem, "The New Colossus," is engraved on a plaque in the Statue of Liberty. Over the years, the sonnet has become a part of American culture, serving as everything from an Irving Berlin show tune to a call for immigrants' rights.
2007-07-28 19:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by Miss Chief 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Emma Lazarus
2007-07-29 02:26:14 · answer #2 · answered by odette82 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋