And yet, as the right is ever-ready to point out, the poem has never reflected America’s actual laws. It was radical even when it was first affixed to the monument: “Emma Lazarus’ poem ...

as expressed by the Emma Lazarus poem that has become synonymous with Lady Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor,” it famously declares, “Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” ...

The widely adopted anecdote about the most famous poem of the moment, that it was written by a woman who didn’t want to write it, is not quite accurate. Emma Lazarus’s The New Colossus and its ...

The words of Emma Lazarus’s famous 1883 sonnet ... of America and its source of revitalization. To marshal Lazarus’s poem in support of a redefinition of American greatness, however ...

Miller: "The poem that you're referring to was added ... CNN’s Jim Acosta invoked Emma Lazarus’s poetic words. “The Statue of Liberty says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled ...

The poem, written by Emma Lazarus, says: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless ...

These iconic words from "The New Colossus," the 1883 poem written by American Emma Lazarus etched in bronze and mounted on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, have again been catapulted into a ...

But the entire poem is much longer ... A year after Lazarus died, her cousin founded the Emma Lazarus Club for Working Girls, “where young Jewish immigrants could learn to type or sew ...

Acosta provoked Miller by contending that the Lazarus poem embodies an “American tradition” of welcoming immigrants regardless of their qualifications. In truth, for as long as the Statue of ...

Emma Lazarus would live in these deluxe digs for only one year. But it was the year she would write her most famous poem about a certain peace gift that was designed by Frédéric Auguste ...

The next year, the book was commercially published as Poems and Translations by Emma Lazarus Written Between the Ages of Fourteen and Seventeen. These measures and others like them kicked off a ...