The New Colossus” is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) … [written] in 1883 … as a donation to an auction of ...

STATUE OF LIBERTY - 2025------ Give me your tired, your poor huddled masses but only if you are a Christian and white. No gays or lesbians. No atheists. No one from below the Rio Grande.

The poem reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” ...

Give me your tired, your poor — and your tatted masses. The Statue of Liberty has long been a symbol of freedom and the American Dream, but also an irresistible option for a tattoo among a su… ...

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” These noble words, penned by poet Emma Lazarus, are cast at the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

First of all, it wasn't even initially part of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was built in the 1870s and 1880s. The poem was added to the base of the statue in the early 1900s, like 1903, I think.

"The Statue of Liberty says, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," said CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, referring to Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus ...

He said the welcoming words from the 1903 plaque at the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor," were put there "at almost the same time" as when the first public charge law was passed ...

In a 2019 interview with CNN, he said, “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.” ...