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Pedro Albizu Campos

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Sooner or later I'ma let go the lethal/ and rep for my people like Pedro Albizu
-Tony Touch feat. dead prez, "Touch 1-Touch All," The Piecemaker (Koch Records, 2004)
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Pedro Albizu Campos | The Struggle: Roots of Puerto Rico's Colonial Status |Biography of Don Pedro | Puerto Rican Nationalism as Liberation | Armed Struggle and Imprisonment | The Racialization of Puerto Ricans | Legacy: from the Island to the Bronx | Bibliografía

"Who are we? We are Puerto Ricans. In order to resolve Puerto Rico's political status, we must first understand who we are and our island's history. In order to destroy our nation, they will have to take our lives."


- Don Pedro Albizu Campos, after the Ponce Massacre, 1937


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Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1893, Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos became one of the leading voices of Puerto Rican independence and liberation. Like many of the freedom fighters we have studied in Black Intellectuals, state sponsored repression of Albizu Campos lead to his frequent and extended imprisonment, ultimately lasting for a period of 25 years.

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