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Emma Lazarus Quotes

1849–1887 United States

Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes.

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19th-century poets
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The Jewish problem is as old as history and assumes in each age a new form. All the magnanimity, patience, charity, and humanity, which the Jews have manifested in return for centuries of persecution, have been thus far inadequate to eradicate the profound antipathy engendered by fanaticism and ready to break out in one or another shape at any moment of popular excitement.

The Feast of Lights:
Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm,
The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
Where is our Judas?Where our-five branched palm?
Where are the lion-warriors of the Lord?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emma Lazarus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.