The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark;… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
