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Quotes from Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party — Pedro Albizu Campos

1891–1965 Puerto Rico

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He who does not respect the truth does not respect his own mother.

Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

You pay taxes to maintain an educational system in which the Puerto Rican is no longer Puerto Rican, to tear the Puerto Rican heart out.

Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

It makes me laugh when the yanquis talk about a police state in other governments. There's no police state like the yanqui system.

Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

these pretended defenders of freedom of every nation of the world except Puerto Rico are mere bandits in the current history of mankind.

Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

The master never trusts the slave.

Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

Today PIP members are caught in the trap of the century, their sons mobilized for the draft-the PIP members quiet, the Populares quiet, the Statehooders quiet, everybody is quiet but the Nationalist Party.

Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

no army is a charitable institution, armies are established to kill, and this is in the charge of the U.S. Army.

Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

The Law of the Funnel, the agreement that Puerto Ricans accept that political slavery of the United States, that's the agreement

Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

Why bring the viruses, the microbes of this disease to experiment here in Puerto Rico? Oh, it's because it can spread and if it spreads here, what's the difference-they're Puerto Ricans. Didn't they kill a few thousands in Korea?

Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pedro Albizu Campos (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.