Luis Muñoz Marin

Luis Muñoz Marin was a poet, journalist, politician, and statesman, one of the most charismatic figures in Puerto Rican history, who served his people throughout his public career. He was a constant champion of social justice and a faithful defender of equality and human rights. He declared that democracy makes peoples, like men, equal in dignity, urged Puerto Ricans never to lose confidence in their own will rather than in any man on earth, and said that a self-confident people must constantly transform the hope of one time into the history of another.

Guayanilla, Puerto Rico · United States