Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” This powerful line from Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus” is inscribed on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal ...

Give me your battered, your cheap, Your wounded stocks that crave a second chance, The wretched refuse of the market’s heap.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” These words, found on the Statue of Liberty, are from the poem, The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus. They refer to our ...