In a message to Puerto Rican students the Young Lords echoed the militancy of some of the city’s Black Power advocates: “If your school is messed up, if the administrators and teachers don’t care and don’t teach—don’t let them force you to drop out. Throw them out. The schools belong to us, not them. [. . .] Make revolution inside the schools. If the schools don’t function for us, they shouldn’t function at all!”
