I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings.  
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport


Further reading
Cavitch Max. She was related through her mother to Benjamin N.

She is best known for "The New Colossus" a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903. Emma Lazarus (July 22 1849 – November 19 1887) was an American poet born in New York City.