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huddled masses



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The lines, "Give me your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," are inscribed on a plaque in the statue's museum.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024

If no one else wants them, we’ll take the tired and poor, the huddled masses.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2024

The Irish were among the "huddled masses" who glimpsed the Statue of Liberty on their way to Ellis Island in New York and the start of a new American life.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023

Yet these are hardly tales of huddled masses.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022

“She was a writer and a poet. She wrote a poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty that says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’”

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar




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