Ms. Lazarus was the prodigiously brilliant author of The New Colossus, the poem memorialized on our Statue of Liberty. Those prerequisites have always included, not only suffrage and representative government, but also affordable land, capital, and education. This is what republicanism meant and what Republican statespersons stood for, and in this sense Ms. Lazarus was both as republican and Republican as she was brilliant and accomplished. It is striking, in this light, that Ms. Lazarus also was a follower of Henry George's, a family relation of Benjamin Cardozo‘s, and a close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson's. Ms. Lazarus was as remarkable in her realms as these, her relations and friends were in theirs.

Source: Huffington Post January 13, 2018 22:52 UTC