We speak Spanish but we think American. We don't want to be… - Luis A. Ferré

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We speak Spanish but we think American. We don't want to be a colony, we don't want to be inferior. We want to be equal.

Luis A. Ferré

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Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo (February 17, 1904 – October 21, 2003) was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973, and the founding father of the New Progressive Party which advocates for Puerto Rico becoming a state of the United States of America.

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