Why the Torch - Part II

August 6, 2007 at 1:35 am · Posted by Oliver Cooper

The Torch is held aloft by the Statue of Liberty, whose proper name, ‘Liberty Enlightening the World’, stands as a testament to its purpose and the purpose of the nation to whom it is dedicated. Possibly the most famous structure in the world, fittingly,

Liberty is therefore the monument to humanity itself, and raising the Torch its raison d’être. Entering the

New World for the first time, the Torch was the first thing that many immigrants saw, welcomed regardless of who they were or where they came from.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus (1883)

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