Give us statehood and your glorious citizenship will be welcome to us and to our children. If you deny us statehood, we decline your citizenship, frankly, proudly, as befits a people who... will preserve their conception of honor, which none can take from them.... (Luis Muñoz Marín)

Give us statehood and your glorious citizenship will be welcome to us and to our children. If you deny us statehood, we decline your citizenship, frankly, proudly, as befits a people who... will preserve their conception of honor, which none can take from them....

Luis Muñoz Marín

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