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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 tost to me, i lift my lamp beside the golden door.
It's not actually part of the original statue of liberty. the poem was engraved onto a plaque placed on the pedestal in 1903 — nearly two decades after the statue was unveiled — and that the monument wasn't always. That plaque was put on the statue of liberty at almost the same time as the first public charge law was passed — very interesting timing. The poem has very little significance in political history. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.