Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” ~ Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) American poetSource: "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; appears on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903