Refugees Welcome

 

 

Activists hung this glorious banner on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. The banner, albeit briefly, joined the bronze plaque on Liberty’s pedestal. That plaque is carved with Emma Lazarus' poignant 1883 poem, "The New Colossus". It has a few lines in it you've probably heard:

 

“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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Looking forward to when the fascists in the current US administration lose in next year's midterm elections. It's a pity Trump keeps forgetting that his mother was—and his wife is—an immigrant. 

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