"We in America understand the many imperfections of democracy and the malignant disease corroding its very heart. We must be united in the effort to make an America in which our people can find happiness. It is a great wrong that anyone in America, whether he be brown or white, should be illiterate or hungry or miserable."
Bulosan- "America is in the Heart"
Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (born November 24, 1913) was a Filipino American novelist and poet best-known for the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart. As a progressive writer of labor struggles, he was blacklisted by the FBI due to his labor organizing and socialist writings. Denied a means to provide for himself, his later years were of hardship and flight. He died in Seattle suffering from an advanced stage of bronchopneumonia. He is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle. He died in Seattle, Washington on September 13, 1956.
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