she holds a lamp
It meant hope, freedom, and liberty.
It 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.
Freedom, Dreams, Rich, Money, Opportunity
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!
The poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus:Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shores.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of you teamming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" and on the tablet in her hand it says July 4, 1776
You didn't state what metal it's made of but my guess is that this is a bullion coin carrying one ounce of silver. The current price is about $14/oz.
The Statue of Libery was presented to the USA as a gift from France. Its famous inscription embedded on the crown 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."
She says, "Enter my country legally, according to law, and I will be glad to lift my lamp beside the golden door."The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to commemorate our signing of the Declaration of Independence. It has become symbolic of many things but has nothing to do with immigration law.Another view:Actually, the Statue of Liberty says in part, " "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!"We've had well over a century to take that down or cross that out if we don't like it. And as Alicia Silverstone's character "Cher" in the movie "Clueless" pointed out, it's a bit rude to invite people over for dinner, then shut the door in their face.No where in the inscription does it speak of quotas or paperwork or immigration laws. Are you tired? Poor? Yearning to breathe free? Homeless? Tempest tossed? Then you are invited.So what does the Statue of Liberty have to do with Immigration laws? Nothing. It's just a lie, the government owned and maintained invitation is not honored.
The inscription is well-known. At least the first two lines are etched into most people's memory. Here is the entire inscription on the Statue of Liberty. "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."
There is a plaque with a poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, addressed to those who arrive in America from foreign lands. In part it 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-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Silvers out in April 2012 and the golden is out