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[โ€“] Carrolade@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The full poem is rather nice.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "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 to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

-Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus

I've argued that The New Colossus ought to be removed since about 2004, and the broken shackle be recast into something like a broken human skull. It would be more appropriate to the way the US has become.