Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
—Excerpted from a poem by Emma Lazarus, 1883, inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty
let people come to america to be free
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