mAKiNig sA mGa naMAyaPa nA...

Ang isang Bayan ay sinusukat ayon sa uri ng mga taong kanyang dinadakila.

"Filipinas, farewell! Long live the Republic and may our independence be born in the future!" - Macario Sakay

"Yes, the Filipino is patient, but there is a limit to his patience. Must we wait until that patience snaps?" - Ninoy Aquino

"A man must die for his convictions and in the performance of his duty as he sees it... I will gladly die for my country." - Jose Rizal

"If it is a crime to love the poor and support them in their just struggles against injustice, then I am ready to fce the firing squad." - Fr. Zacarias Agatep

"Our economy is in shambles and our children are heirs to an almost unbearable national debt because good and decent citizens have abandoned politics to the corrupt." - Evelio B. Javier

"Education is an important concern in our struggle for national liberation. We are determined to carry out the revolution in our country." - Edgar Gil M. Jopson

"We shall be judged by history... not by what we want to do and can't, but what we ought to do and don't." - Cecilia Munoz Palma

"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. I would not want such a system to go on. There must be reforms. The poor need reforms..." - Dennis Rolando R. Deveraturda

"Human rights is at the core of the Gospel teachings... sufferings unite victims." - Sr. Mariani C. Dimaranan

"The matter with us is that we are too selfish and this is what makes our country tagnant..." - Ma. Antonia Teresa V. Vytiaco

"I have more reasons to fight now. If I will not wage war against this oppressive system, my son will also suffer the same fate..." - Amado G. Bugay


Note: Many thanks to Bantayog ng mga Bayani's Souvenir Issue of 2006

aNd GoD wEPt...

In the end, man destroyed the heaven that was called earth. 
The earth had been beautiful until the spirit of man 
moved over it and destroyed all things.
 

And man said, ...

Let there be darkness...and there was darkness.
And man liked the darkness ; so he called the darkness "security".

And he divided himself into races and religions and classes of society. 

And there was no evening and no morning on the seventh day before the 

end.

And man said, ... 

Let there be a strong government to control us in our darkness.

Let there be armies to control our bodies, so that we may learn to kill 

one another neatly and efficiently in our darkness. 

And there was no evening and no morning on the sixth day before the end.

And man said, ...

Let there be rockets and bombs to kill faster and easier;

Let there be gas chambers and furnaces to be more thorough.

And there was no evening and no morning on the fifth day before the 

end. 

And man said,....

Let there be drugs and other forms of escape, for there is this 

constant annoyance -- reality, which is disturbing our comfort. 

And there was no morning and no evening on the fourth day before the 

end. 

And man said, ....

Let there be division among the nations, so that we may know who is our 

common enemy. 

And there was no morning and no evening on the third day before the 

end. 

And finally man said, ....

Let us create God in our image. 

Let some other god compete with us. 

Let us say that God thinks -- as we think. 

                    hates  -- as we hates. 

                and kills  -- as we kill. 

And there was no morning and no evening on the second day before the 

end. 

On the last day there was a great noise on the face of the earth. 

Fire consumed the beautiful globe, and there was -- silence. 

The blackened earth now rested to worship the one true God. 

And God saw all that man had done,

and in the silence over the smoldering ruins, 

He wept.