Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
“As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.”
“Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can...”
“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?”
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
“Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate ...”
“Every war has its martyrs the unsung heroes who sometimes dont even know the rationale behind the war they are fighting. They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to and d...”
“The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing Glory will live on. We speak of the martyrs in History but we cannot kn...”
“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”