Rizal Quotes

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.

We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution.

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?