Many are familiar with the poem celebrating the Statue of Liberty titled, “The New Colossus,” written by Emma Lazarus in 1883 as part of a fundraising effort for the statue still being erected. The last lines are the ones many can recite
verbatim: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost [sic] to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door![i]