SLAVERY, THEN AND NOW The slaves of yesterday dreamed of freedom. The slaves of today dream of freedom. The slaves of yesterday dreamed of a better life for their family. They dreamed of the day when their children wouldn’t have to pick cotton or do other backbreaking work. The slaves of today dream of a better life for their family. They dream of the day when their children can get a good education and not have to steal or sell drugs to survive.
Rufino Colón
THE ANIMAL IN ME Sometimes I am a falcon and soar high up in the sky and am one with God.
Sometimes I am a snake and want to be left alone and if you don’t, I’ll bite you.
Rufino Colón
GOD!
God! is pure love. God! is a mother looking at her child’s face for the first time. God! is the junkie or crack-head on the corner. God! is all that is good in mankind. God! is the master over all evil. God! is the one who guided the surgeon’s hands.
Rufino Colón
DON PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS Don Albizu is to most Puerto Ricans like Martin Luther King, Jr. To me, he was more like Malcolm X. The reason I say Malcolm is that he said things like, “Where tyranny is law, revolution is order.” Like King, Malcolm, Che, Gandhi, Moses and Jesus, he gave his life for what he believed in.
Rufino Colón
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