Notre Dame messages from Barack, Hillary & Joe

[a kennedy]

5. It's actually part of her inscription.......

The New Colossus” was written by Emma Lazarus in 1883 as a fundraiser to pay for the base of the Statue of Liberty. It was engraved on a plaque and mounted inside the lower level in 1903. One line of the poem is readily recalled by most Americans:

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

But the entire poem is a mission statement, a declaration of purpose for our nation. It begins:

“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning. And her name,

Mother of Exiles.”