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1904–2003 Puerto Rico
Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo (February 17, 1904 – October 21, 2003) was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973, and the founding father of the New Progressive Party which advocates for Puerto Rico becoming a state of the United States of America.
Puerto Rico Businesspeople Philanthropists Politicians Also known as: Luis A. Ferre, Luis Ferre
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Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.
My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.
The scholars and critics all called it kitsch, everyone thought I was crazy to buy them.
Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.
I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen.
We speak Spanish but we think American. We don't want to be a colony, we don't want to be inferior. We want to be equal.
Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.
I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.
Reason does not scream. Reason convinces.
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