"We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth."

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Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.

— Nelson Antonio Denis