They call my people 'Spics' in New York. These are poor people struggling to make a living and should be treated like people and not animals.


Interviewed in September 1972, as quoted in "Clemente Legend Growing" by Bob Addie, in The Washington Post (Wednesday, May 23, 1973), p. E5

Roberto Clemente Quotes

They call my people 'Spics' in New York. These are poor people struggling to make a living and should be treated like people and not animals.

They call my people 'Spics' in New York. These are poor people struggling to make a living and should be treated like people and not animals.

They call my people 'Spics' in New York. These are poor people struggling to make a living and should be treated like people and not animals.

They call my people 'Spics' in New York. These are poor people struggling to make a living and should be treated like people and not animals.