"Jews are the intensive form of any nationality……" — Emma Lazarus
"Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt."
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Emma Lazarus
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13 Quotes by Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus has 13 quotes on this site.
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore,…
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Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
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Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
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My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.
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Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops…
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I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed,…
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
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Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
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I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet…
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The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
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Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre…
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