Nelson Antonio Denis Quotes

• Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Native American, Sacrifice, Land

  "The Lost History of Puerto Rico’s Independence Movement". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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• Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where it's like, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," but what happened in Puerto Rico never happened at all. It's not like there was a decades-long conspiracy. It's just the aggregation of all these historical forces made it difficult for this information to exist in one place.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Ocean, Vegas, Islands

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• El movimiento independentista puertorriqueño no estaba arraigado sólo en algún tipo de intransigencia personal o en algún temperamento latino apasionado. Tenía sus raíces en la realidad económica y política de la época. También tenía sentido, ya que los principios fundacionales de Estados Unidos se basan supuestamente en el gobierno por consentimiento de los gobernados, y en el sentido de que todos los hombres son creados iguales.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Reality, Men, Political

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