Development Through Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9770208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luis Muñoz Marín (Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1953 |
| Volume | 285 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Publication date | 1953-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271625328500102 |
| OpenAlex | W2105127946 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
To Puerto Rican, patria is colors of landscape, change of seasons, smell of earth wet with fresh rain, voice of streams, crash of ocean against shore, fruits, songs, habits of work and of leisure, typical dishes for special occasions and meager ones for everyday, flowers, valleys, and pathways. But even more than these things, patria is people: their way of life, spirit, folkways, customs, their ways of getting along with each other. Without these latter things patria is only a name, an abstraction, a bit of scenery. But with them it is an integral whole: the homeland and Those who profess to love their country while taking an irresponsible attitude towards destiny of its people suffer from spiritual confusion. The implication of their attitude is that we must save country even though we destroy people! Love of country must mean love of all of country-both patria and people. But some of us confused love of homeland with narrow
Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1955 - 2025 (71) |
| Highly cited | No |