Here are the some passages from Ninoy Aquino which really inculcated in
my mind.
Ninoy Aquino’s patriotic statement
to remember his heroism and love of country:
Number 5 “There has never
been a single dictator in history that has lived forever and so I tell Mr.
Marcos to study the lessons of history before it is too late.”
Number
4 “What can one man do if the Filipino people love their slavery, if the
Filipino people have lost their voice and would not say no to a tyrant, what
can one man do. I have not army, I have no following, I have no money, and I
only have my indomitable spirit.”
Number 3 “We only ask that freedom be returned, we
ask for nothing more but we will accept nothing less”
Number 2 “We should not depend on one man;
we should depend on all of us. All of us are expandable in the cause for
freedom and therefore I say stand up now and be a leader, and when all of us
are leaders, we will expedite the cause of freedom.”
Number 1 “I have weighed
all the virtues and faults of the Filipinos, and I have come to the conclusion
that the Filipino is worth dying for.”
Ninoy Aquino showed to us the significance of oneness and unity, the
harmony that should prevail among us Filipinos in order to resolve various
problems that we are experiencing now. Crisis after crisis tend to beset our
nation and we ended up blaming the government for these without even asking
ourselves, what our contributions to resolve these problems. Like what Ninoy Aquino
has said, if we remain callous or
indifferent, nothing will happen. Let us cultivate our burning desire for
change and our indomitable spirit for progress in order to achieve a
transformational society. There are no questions about what he did, how he fearlessly campaigned
for the return of democratic values and ideals to the Filipino people, and how
he bravely went home to the Philippines despite repeated warnings that his life
was in danger.
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