“Men fell on their knees to pray. Women hugged their babies and wept. Children danced. Strangers embraced and kissed like old friends. Old men and women had in their eyes a look of young people in love. Age-old visions sang themselves in me songs of freedom of an oppressed people.
These powerful were words not written by a college student, a historian, or a best-selling author. No, this beautiful paragraph was once stated by an unlearned immigrant just stepping onto American soil for the first time. This poor immigrant was a young Anzia Yezierska, beloved author of the book Hungry Hearts.
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