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"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she with silent lips. 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."

Lazarus, Emma on immigration
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"Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut -- a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul."

Yezierska, Anzia on immigration    Share

"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."

Lippmann, Walter on immigration    Share

"There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to Americanize him."

Cooley, Charles Horton on immigration    Share

"Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state."

Bierce, Ambrose on immigration    Share

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