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"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

"Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!"

"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."

"And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons."
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"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city."


"I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe."


"And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez."


"What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another."


"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."


"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."
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