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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-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Source: These lines are inscribed on the Statue of Liberty; from The New Colossus, 1883.
-- Emma Lazarus, (Jul 22 1849-1887), US poet; She was a spokesperson for Judaism who is best known for New Colossus which is inscribed on the base of Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

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