Yesterday, Hank Green offered to donate 5$ to the ACLU for each person who replied to him on Twitter with a hand-drawn message of support for immigrants, Muslims and/or refugees. I did a quick sketch, then finished it today. I offered it to him to sell as a print and donate any profit to the ACLU Nationwide, I will let you know if/when that happens.
I stand with everyone protesting today, and I stand with the ACLU.
“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!’
The author of that poem is Emma Lazarus.
“Emma Lazarus was the first American to make any sense of this statue,” Esther Schor, who wrote a biography on Lazarus, told the Times in 2011.
Lazarus, who was born in New York City in 1849 to a wealthy Jewish family, composed “The New Colossus” for a fundraiser benefiting the Statue of Liberty in 1883. (While the statue was a gift from France, the United States was responsible for covering the cost of its base and pedestal.)
Lazarus drew inspiration from her Sephardic Jewish heritage and from her work on Ward’s Island, where she helped Jewish refugees who had been detained by immigration authorities, according to the National Park Service.
“Wherever there is humanity, there is the theme for a great poem,” she once said, according to the Jewish Women’s Archives.
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