At the feet of the Statue of Liberty, an inscription reads: ‘Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’ Now, 140 years after the famous Green Lady was given ...

The poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty was long assumed to welcome ... NPR’s Morning Edition show whether the words “give me your tired, your poor” were part of the American mindset.

It is, she acknowledges with obvious feeling, and abruptly quotes the best-known lines from Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus," engraved on the statue's pedestal: Give me your tired ...