The resulting sonnet, "The New Colossus", including the iconic lines "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", is uniquely identified with the Statue of Liberty and is inscribed on a plaque in the museum in its base.
V tem času je tudi sodelovala pri pomoči beguncem v New Yorku, ki so bežali pred antisemitskimi pogromi iz vhodne Evrope.