JULY 4TH, 1899 FOUNDATION

"Advancing Statehood for Puerto Rico through Policy Analysis and Academics"
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Statement of Belief      
 
 MISSION STATEMENT 
 

 

 

         The Foundation's purpose and mission as a Non-Partisan, Pro-Statehood organization is committed to

           educate, inform, and work towards the realization of Statehood for Puerto Rico.

         

 

Our vision and goal  is for Puerto Rico to become the 51st State of the Union... The Foundation will work to communicate and engage every Puerto Rico American (in the Island and mainland), other Latino Americans, and the broader American community, to appreciate and understand the struggles and ideals of the Pro-Statehood movement.  

 

The Foundation believes in full political and economic empowerment for Puerto Rico and her rights to a legitimate and equal voice

with full representantion as a State of the American Union.

 

The Foundation believes and wants what the United States Constitution states:

 

       "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure

         domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the

         Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the

         United States of America."

         - United States Constitution 

 

The Foundation will work for a national discussion and agenda which aims to broaden the and understanding subsequent support for the economic, political, and cultural rationales for allowing Puerto Rico to become the 51st State of the Union. By imparting

these opportunities and challenges, we can give Puerto Rico the chance to contribute, compete, and shine as a State to forge

ahead a new and more perfect union:

 

         "We consider as determining factors in our life our citizenship of the United States of America, and

         our aspiration, continually to enrich our democratic heritage in the individual and collective enjoyment

         of its rights and privileges; our loyalty to the principles of the Federal Constitution; the co-existence in

         Puerto Rico of the two great cultures of the American Hemisphere; our fervor for education; our faith in

         justice; our devotion to the courageous, industrious, and peaceful way of life; our fidelity to individual

        human values above and beyond social position, racial differences, and economic interests; and our hope

        for a better world based on these principles."

         - Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

                                      

The Foundation believes that our fellow Americans in the Island ought to have the same rights and privileges to excel and succed
as we enjoy here in the mainland; the same rights and privileges to share in the opportunities and to climb the ladder of prospertiy; the same rights and privileges to reach our full potential which requires commitment, preseverance, equality and the freedom to pursue the American Dream.