Champion of the Masses

Despite the US Supreme Court reinstating part of Donald Trump's six-nation travel ban on Monday, Liberty's championing of the immigrant remains immortalised in a welcoming inscription on a bronze plaque at the base of the statue:

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"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!"

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-- From the poem "The New Colossus", Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)