Emma Lazarus

...poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus When Lazarus wrote "wretched refuse" in her ode to immigration that graces the Statue of Liberty, she didn't...

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Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 - November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its final lines were engraved on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the...

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...to breathe free, By jlb101 By WillieTanner The inscription on the statue of liberty is part of a poem written by an american, Emma Lazarus, to help raise money for construction of the base for the statue which was America's...

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...Schlesinger is a dead ringer for Judson Welliver (the first White House speechwriter). Sen. Barbara Boxer plans to summon poet Emma Lazarus's look and spirit. As for myself, shall I be Alice in Wonderland or perhaps Sally Quinn, the...

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...project. Many of the project's already produced or planned books focus on Jewish historical figures as diverse as Maimonides, Emma Lazarus and Judah Maccabee. All of the authors are noteworthy; for instance, Stephen J. Dubner is to...

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...deterioration of one of our nation's central values. We are at our collective best when we are deeply engaged in echoing the words of Emma Lazarus' epic poem, "The New Colossus" -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning...

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...promise of the Statue of Liberty, the judgment of Ellis Island, and the hope of Manhattan's skyscrapers rising in the distance. Emma Lazarus's ode to the huddled masses, inside the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, is a timeless reminder of our...

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...of Fame, which opens in Philadelphia in November, 2010. The other honorees from the arts are author Isaac Bashevis Singer and poet Emma Lazarus. The group also includes Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis,...

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...of the U.S. Supreme Court. Estee Lauder: businesswoman, founder of the fragrance and cosmetic firm that bears her name. Emma Lazarus: poet and Zionist, author of sonnet "The New Colossus," whose famous lines - "Give me your tired,...

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...today: Let's get rid of The Poem. I'm talking about "Give me your tired, your poor . . . " -- that poem, "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, which sometimes seems to define us as a nation even more than Lady Liberty herself. Inscribed...

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