José Rizal
Filipino writer and nationalist (1861 to 1896); ophthalmologist and a key member of the Propaganda Movement for political reform under Spanish rule.
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Their wordsTherefore, we repeat, and we will ever repeat, while there is time, that it is better to keep pace with the desires of a people than to give way before them: the former begets sympathy and love, the latter contempt and anger.
↗The Philippines a Century Hence (tr. Charles Derbyshire, ed. Austin Craig, 1912)gutenberg.org 6th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsSince it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.
↗The Philippines a Century Hence (tr. Charles Derbyshire, ed. Austin Craig, 1912)gutenberg.org 7th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsWe said, and once more we repeat, and will ever assert, that reforms which have a palliative character are not only ineffectual but even prejudicial, when the government is confronted with evils that must be cured radically.
↗The Philippines a Century Hence (tr. Charles Derbyshire, ed. Austin Craig, 1912)gutenberg.org 1st of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsThe minister, then, who wants his reforms to be reforms, must begin by declaring the press in the Philippines free and by instituting Filipino delegates.
↗The Philippines a Century Hence (tr. Charles Derbyshire, ed. Austin Craig, 1912)gutenberg.org 2nd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsLet us see what History says: uprisings and revolutions have always occurred in countries tyrannized over, in countries where human thought and the human heart have been forced to remain silent.
↗The Philippines a Century Hence (tr. Charles Derbyshire, ed. Austin Craig, 1912)gutenberg.org 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsOffices and trusts should be awarded by competition, publishing the work and the judgment thereon, so that there may be stimulus and that discontent may not be bred.
↗The Philippines a Century Hence (tr. Charles Derbyshire, ed. Austin Craig, 1912)gutenberg.org 4th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsSpain can not claim, not even in the name of God himself, that six millions of people should be brutalized, exploited and oppressed, denied light and the rights inherent to a human being, and then heap upon them slights and insults.
↗The Philippines a Century Hence (tr. Charles Derbyshire, ed. Austin Craig, 1912)gutenberg.org 5th of 7 in this piece
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