> The Declaration, and the Constitution, set out ideals and standards. That neither the country nor its citizens (including their authors) always live up to the

> The Declaration, and the Constitution, set out ideals and standards. That neither the country nor its citizens (including their authors) always live up to them does not invalidate their worthiness. The poem sets out ideals and standards. That neither the country nor its citizens (including their authors) always live up to them does not invalidate their worthiness. > The Lazarus poem is, as I said, typically used in online debate as a universal cudgel. "By quoting this STUNNING AND BRAVE poem, I have 100% defeated your evil racist right-wing anti-migrant rhetoric! I don't have to provide the name of the author, the poem's name, the circumstances behind its writing, when and how it appeared on the pedestal, the standards every immigrant had to meet to pass through Ellis Island, or anything else! IT'S THAT POWERFUL!!!1!!!!!11" The poem is famous. Most search engines are free. Are you equally histrionic when someone quotes the Declaration of Independence without title and author?