Quotes By Emma Lazarus

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

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

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.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.