Luis Muñoz Marín Quotes

Luis Muñoz Marín: 2 quotes 1 like

“If you want to sell your vote, go ahead; it's a free country. But be sure you get something for it… You can't get both justice and the two dollars.”

Luis Muñoz Marín

Quoted by TIME Magazine on March 31, 1941 when commenting on Puerto Rican jíbaros accepting $2 bribes for their votes. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,765338-1,00.html

Justice , Country

“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

https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6444&context=faculty_scholarship

Children , People

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