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. -Emma Lazarus

 

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.


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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

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Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain. -Emma Lazarus
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His cup is gall, his meat is tears,/ His passion lasts a thousand years.

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Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

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Still on Israel's head forlorn,/ Every nation heaps its scorn. -Emma Lazarus
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