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

— 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.

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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.

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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.

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The master never trusts the slave.

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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.

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