We have all seen a lot of American flags since 9/11, but now as our country seems to be rushing toward war, I’ve been thinking about the Statue of Liberty, which embodies a more compassionate vision of our national destiny.
In “The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus’ poem inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty, Liberty is “not like the brazen giant of Greek fame with conquering limbs astride from land to land,” but instead, “a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning and her name Mother of Exiles.”
—By Nina Utne, Utne magazine
March / April 2003 Issue
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