huddled masses

Example Sentences

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Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023

But surely many say it's far better to offer a céad míle fáilte than to see your "huddled masses" depart for foreign lands.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023

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 • Oct. 13, 2022

Still another was the poet Emma Lazarus, whose ode to “the huddled masses yearning to breathe free” famously honored the Statue of Liberty.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

“She was a writer and a poet. She wrote a poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty that says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’”

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar