“In prison or facing death, the vows of consecration are renewed: the Homeland is valor and sacrifice.
Pedro Albizu Campos.
In the prison of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the tenth of October, 1936, day of the denial of bail, accused of conspiring to overthrow by force the government of Yankee imperialism. In the journey toward martyrdom I was accompanied by Juan Antonio Corretjer, Luis F. Velázquez, Clemente Soto Vélez, Erasmo Velázquez.”
—Autograph text of Pedro Albizu Campos, from the autograph album of Rosa Emilia Albizu Meneses, daughter of Don Pedro Albizu Campos. Collection of Don Francisco Dávila and Doña María M. O’Neill. Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico, October 2, 1984.
Two mysteries absorb the mind of your father: the mystery of water and the mystery of tenderness. What mystery does water hold — that God has chosen as the element for the transmutation of the soul? Tenderness at its genuine summit is the Omnipotence that subjugates us with its majesty of love.