All Americans were immigrants at one point or another, ” he explained in his letters to his parents. Even his father Manuel migrated to Puerto Rico. Manuel was deemed a Peninsular, an immigrant from Spain, and sometimes even the Puerto Rican-born, the criollos, resented the Spanish-born newcomers. Manuel was familiar with being singled out, although not quite as much as Antonio felt while in New York. “It is amazing how people tend to forget their past, ” Antonio wrote to his parents, surprised. “I recall what you told me about Maestro Rafael, Papá, when he said to you ‘never forget your history. Yasmin TiradoChiodini
A little truth seasons a lie like salt.
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Jacqueline Carey
Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.
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Nancy B. Brewer
Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.
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Ruta Sepetys
How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have...
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Ruta Sepetys
Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.
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Sarah Sundin
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ANTONIO PONTÓN’S TRIAL made front page headlines across major newspapers. On April 17, 1915, the Schenectady Gazette headline read, “Trial of Ponton on the Charge of Committing one of Most Startling Murders in History of County.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution
What to do now, Father? I am going to die like a killer, and I do not even remember killing.”“ You can pray, my son. You are in the hands of God now, ” said the good priest.
What you are about to witness is a blot upon the civilization of the twentieth century."- Sing Sing Deputy Warden Spencer Miller, Addressing Antonio Pontón’s execution witnesses on January 7, 1916
The Porto Ricans at Harvard University believe that the crime was a horrible one and it should be punished, but death penalty would add to, and not detract from, its horrors, ” the Harvard students wrote. One of the student signatures on the letter was...