It is, she acknowledges with obvious feeling, and abruptly quotes the best-known lines from Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus," engraved on the statue's pedestal: Give me your tired ...

The poem in no way represents any kind of core American value. It is the work of one woman named Emma Lazarus. And so the the poem speaks to the core values of Emma Lazarus, not of the United ...

Photo from Jeff Burak, UnSplash Attached to the Statue of Liberty is a bronze plaque inscribed with a poem familiar to many Americans. Written by Emma Lazarus in 1883 and hung inside the statue ...