3/14/2024 0 Comments Emma lazarus poem![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem is best known for the line: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." "Emma wrote that poem in which she talked about the Statue of Liberty as a mother of exiles," Annie Polland, the executive director of the American Jewish Historical Society, told As It Happens guest host Nil Köksal. Not, as a Trump administration official suggested this week, a place only welcome to Europeans who can "stand on their own two feet." When Emma Lazarus wrote her famous poem that's inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, she was talking about an America that is "welcoming and inclusive," says a leading historian on the poet. ![]()
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