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Originally Posted by Challenger
"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."
Has Lady Liberty's inscription been revoked ?
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1. You quote a portion of a sonnet written by Emma Lazarus, a then-popular poet who contributed a hand-written copy of the poem to an auction as part of a fund raising campaign to get the funds to build the base of the statue. The government did not fund building the base upon which the statue, a gift from the people of France, was to be placed.
2. Friends of the poet later raised money for a bronze plaque to be installed inside the monument to commemorate her fund raising effort. The plaque included the sonnet.
It was not, and is not official government policy.
3. This is not the only plaque on the statue. Among others, the cornerstone also bears a plaque placed by the Freemasons.
4. The "golden door" beside which Lady Liberty lifts her torch is the LEGAL FRONT DOOR, not an illegal back door.
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