<p>This bronze plaque, dedicated in 1955, is a memorial to the poet and patriot Emma Lazarus, who famously penned the sonnet "The New Colossus" that is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty.</p><p>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 a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles, from her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!</p>

 Author of the New Colossus, the sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty the New Colossus. 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 a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles, from her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"&amp;nbsp; Presented by the Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations, inc. the occasion of the American Jewish tercentenary this foundation stone is the gift of the state of Israel&amp;nbsp;  

Emma Lazarus Memorial