Luis A. Ferré Quote

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.


On Puerto Ricans and their relationship with the United States, in a 1999 WOSO radio station interview in Puerto Rico, as quoted by the Associated Press


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.

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.

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.

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.