- "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."
- Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus - "I am never going to write for the sake of writing."
- Emma Lazarus - "I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects."
- Emma Lazarus - "Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt."
- Emma Lazarus - "Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain."
- Emma Lazarus - "My own curiosity and interest are insatiable."
- Emma Lazarus - "The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch."
- Emma Lazarus - "Until we are all free, we are none of us free."
- Emma Lazarus - "We who are prosperous and independent have not sufficient homogeneity to champion on the ground of a common creed, common stock, a common history, a common heritage of misfortune, the rights of the lowest and poorest Jew-peddler who flees, for life and liberty of thought, from Slavonic mobs."
- Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus Quotes
By Esther Lombardi, About.com
Emma Lazarus is a famous American poet and essayist, famous for the poem she wrote that is associated with the Statue of Liberty: The New Colossus. Here are a few quotes from Emma Lazarus.
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