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“It was impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure; it would have no vitality; it would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.”
― War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
― War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
“Eugenio María de Hostos, the great Puerto Rican educator, summed it up as follows: “How sad and overwhelming and shameful it is to see [Puerto Rico] go from owner to owner without ever having been her own master, and to see her pass from sovereignty to sovereignty without ever ruling herself.”
― War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
― War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
“The grown-ups are very strange.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“So, you see, translators do not so much deliver a message as the rewrite the original. And herein lies the difficulty - rewriting is still writing, and writing always reflects the authors ideology and biases.”
― Babel
― Babel
“He walked through life with a revolution inside his head, a vision of man and woman, an island left in peace, a Garden of Eden without the cancer. But the vision was dying in a holocaust of strange science. It was burning in a man-made inferno.”
― War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
― War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
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