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

— Pedro Albizu Campos Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

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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)

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)

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