Give me your tired, your poor

Cultural  

1. A line from a poem, “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus. “The New Colossus,” describing the Statue of Liberty, appears on a plaque at the base of the statue. It ends with the statue herself speaking:

   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.

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Example Sentences

Not its leaders nor its monuments urging other countries to “give me your tired, your poor.”

From Salon

The lines, "Give me your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," are inscribed on a plaque in the statue's museum.

From Salon

“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” read the words of Emma Lazarus inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.

From Salon

Things like: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”

From Los Angeles Times

"Call me crazy, but I remember the big tall green lady — you know the one that's over the river — she kinda said '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 thought that was part of what we did here in the United States," Goldberg said.

From Salon