Please remember, all you who never read my blog posts: Get the book. It has wonderful illustrations by Shawn Harris.
There are no page numbers, but I'm typing up all the text of the book. This is the third and final part of my "sharing."
The Statue of Liberty was not built to welcome just 1,886 immigrants from Italy on one certain Sunday in, say, 1886. No! She was built to welcome 3,000 immigrants from Poland the next day. The next day, 5,000 Norwegians. After that, 10,000 Glaswegians.
Then Cambodians. Then Estonians. Somalis. Nepalis. Syrians. Liberians.
It never ends. It cannot end.
After all, the Statue of Liberty is an immigrant, too. And this is why she's moving. This is why she's striding.
In welcoming the poor, the tired, the struggling to breathe free.
She is not content to wait.
She must meet them in the sea.
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