The plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty reads, “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!”
When I was in grade school, we had to memorize this. I thought it was one of the things that “made America great.” Actually, I thought it was one of the things that made America America.
Linda Carper
Spokane
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