WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.001 [...] 00:00:10.001 --> 00:00:11.000 [...] 00:00:31.001 --> 00:00:33.001 I am liberty. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:40.001 I am the living symbol of all women, creed and races. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:46.001 I am the hopes and dreams of all mankind. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:56.000 Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled men, your men, the masses yearning 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:01.000 to be free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. 00:01:02.001 --> 00:01:06.000 Send them, tempest toss to me. 00:01:07.001 --> 00:01:11.000 I lift the lamp beside the golden door. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:21.000 The waters of the deep, restlessly tumbling at my feet, there past 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:25.001 my sky-flung arm, the persecuted and oppressed, 00:01:26.001 --> 00:01:28.000 the crushed in spirit. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:31.001 To them I am the symbol. 00:01:32.001 --> 00:01:37.001 Their eyes, haunted and fear-ridden, are filled with a thousand 00:01:37.001 --> 00:01:39.000 agonizing memories. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:45.001 But as they look upon me, a new-found courage bleeds. 00:01:47.001 --> 00:01:54.001 And in their hearts, surging almost to the bursting point with hope, are 00:01:54.001 --> 00:01:58.001 born new men and women, Americans. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.000 Into the man-made canyons of Manhattan they poured. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.001 Many were there already, but many more were welcome. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.001 They joined the steel of these towers. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.001 They carved subways beneath these avenues. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.000 Into the tall forest they came with axe and saw and wedge. 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:30.000 They knew how to fell a tree to the line and how to spare the nearby settling. 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.000 On the Great Plains there were early settlers. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:41.000 In Dakota they dwelt at peace with the Indian and in Texas with the Mexicans. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:47.000 They organized the counties and gave their names to villages and cities. 00:02:49.001 --> 00:02:52.000 In the mountain state they prospected in mind. 00:02:53.001 --> 00:02:57.001 They shared with the native-born a continent's treasure of metals 00:02:57.001 --> 00:02:59.001 precious and useful. 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:05.001 To the vineyards of the Pacific Coast, they brought their knowledge of the grape 00:03:05.001 --> 00:03:07.001 and put it to good use. 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:15.000 So they came and so they spread, with hungry eyes and hearts, 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:21.001 all seeking for what I, Liberty, promised. 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.000 You see them? 00:03:25.001 --> 00:03:30.001 The foreign-born who lately came to me, reversing the streets of my cities 00:03:30.001 --> 00:03:32.000 boldly, openly. 00:03:33.001 --> 00:03:35.001 But can you point them out? 00:03:35.001 --> 00:03:39.001 In what manner do they differ from you or your neighbors? 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:45.000 And their children. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:51.000 What one of them has been denied the rights and privileges of my own? 00:03:53.001 --> 00:04:00.000 When you see them at play, carefree as children the world over should be, can you 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:04.000 honestly say, this one is alien? 00:04:04.001 --> 00:04:08.001 That one has been denied anything? 00:04:11.001 --> 00:04:17.001 Look upon the marketplaces, consider the storefronts. 00:04:17.001 --> 00:04:24.000 Where I am is the invitation to all, enter and buy, no matter who you are. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.000 Where I am not is the placard of discrimination. 00:04:32.001 --> 00:04:38.001 Where in all my land is the law forbidding the free enterprise of the man who 00:04:38.001 --> 00:04:45.000 seeks to better his lot by working harder, selling cheaper, or improving the 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.000 product of his trade or industry. 00:04:48.001 --> 00:04:55.000 Where the list of registered voters posted outside the polling place that lacks 00:04:55.000 --> 00:05:00.000 the names of descendants of all nationalities, the names of believers 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.000 in all creeds. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:10.000 All these things and more, much more, have I pledged in my 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.000 name liberty. 00:05:13.001 --> 00:05:20.000 To my adopted children I have said and pledged, hear the rich soil 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.001 yearning to bring forth the fruits of your labor, yours to have 00:05:25.001 --> 00:05:27.001 and to hope. 00:05:28.001 --> 00:05:34.000 There the mill, the plant, the factory where skilled workers produce a nation's 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:38.000 necessities and luxuries and also carve their own futures. 00:05:39.001 --> 00:05:42.000 Would you enter the learned profession? 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.000 My great universities offer all of you their degrees. 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:53.000 You may be a lawyer, an architect, at cost only of your time and ambition. 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:58.001 Now let us see for ourselves the works and achievements of the foreign born. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:06.000 We ride upon a great railroad system founded and built almost single handed by an 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:07.001 untutored immigrant boy. 00:06:10.001 --> 00:06:15.001 Have I liberty kept faith with all who trusted me? 00:06:16.001 --> 00:06:22.001 Ask the least of independent tradesmen or ask his cousin who operates the huge 00:06:22.001 --> 00:06:26.000 mill employing thousands of fellow Americans. 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:32.000 Ask the keeper of the roadside stand the next time you stop for a hot dog. 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.001 Ask the merchant who operates the great chain of department stores. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:42.001 Interrogate the little group at the crossroads store or survey the many 00:06:42.001 --> 00:06:44.001 opinions of a teaming city. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:51.000 Talk with the unskilled worker on the farm or converse with the athlete 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:52.001 training to win a championship. 00:06:54.001 --> 00:06:58.001 Go to the well informed, to the policemen enforcing my 00:06:58.001 --> 00:07:00.001 laws without fear or favor. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:07.000 Ask the editor of this uncensored newspaper and his reporters and writers. 00:07:07.001 --> 00:07:14.000 They can tell you there's the right to fair pay to the American 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:19.000 standard of living, to collective bargaining and social security. 00:07:20.001 --> 00:07:22.000 There are the freedoms. 00:07:23.001 --> 00:07:29.001 Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of economic enterprise, 00:07:31.001 --> 00:07:35.001 and most important of all, freedom from fear. 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.000 Fear of the state or its laws. 00:07:40.001 --> 00:07:45.001 There are the rights to common goal, to speak or be silent. 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:53.000 The right to education, to equality in the courts of justice, to rest in 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:57.000 recreation in the nation's playgrounds, to adventure. 00:07:58.001 --> 00:08:01.001 Yes, the adventure of progress. 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:09.000 My sons and daughters, yours is an opportunity given to few among the teaming 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:10.001 millions upon this planet. 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:19.001 The dim trail ahead may not be always smooth, but at its end is a broad highway, 00:08:20.001 --> 00:08:26.000 a better way of life, not only for ourselves, but for all 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:27.001 peoples everywhere. 00:08:29.001 --> 00:08:34.001 Together we shall climb the heights and look upon that clean and decent 00:08:34.001 --> 00:08:38.000 world, the democratic world. 00:08:39.001 --> 00:08:45.001 For so long as in your hearts you wish to have me with you, 00:08:46.001 --> 00:08:53.000 so long as you want me so much that you will fight for me. 00:08:53.001 --> 00:09:00.001 If me be, die for me, but above 00:09:00.001 --> 00:09:07.001 all, live for me, then 00:09:07.001 --> 00:09:09.001 I shall be with you. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:19.000 And I am liberty, enlightening the world, for I lift 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:22.001 the lamp beside the golden door. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.000 [...]