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TIL that the words at the base of the Statue of Liberty - “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” - are by Jewish-American poet Emma Lazarus, from her poem “The New Colossus.” The quote was added to the pedestal 17 years after her death.

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