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rob05c  ·  3345 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Statue of Liberty Must be Crying with Shame

After that title, it's a shame the author didn't include the words graven at Liberty's feet.

    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.





drspinderwalf  ·  3337 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Always one of my favorite texts, along with this:

    No man is an island,

    Entire of itself,

    Every man is a piece of the continent,

    A part of the main.

    If a clod be washed away by the sea,

    Europe is the less.

    As well as if a promontory were.

    As well as if a manor of thy friend's

    Or of thine own were:

    Any man's death diminishes me,

    Because I am involved in mankind,

    And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

    It tolls for thee.

Though I remember hitchens once saying something like the above being used to describe a proposal to keep Europe unified or something.... But I like the romanticism of unity of humanity. Et pluribus unum.