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“Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.”

José Rizal

"Como se gobiernan las Filipinas" (How one governs in the Philippines), published in La Solidaridad (15 December 1890)

“To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.”

José Rizal

Letter to his family, Dapitan (c. 1884)

“; The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.”

José Rizal book El Filibusterismo

El Filibusterismo

“I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.”

José Rizal

“I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra”

José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere

Source: Noli Me Tángere

“; There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.”

José Rizal book El Filibusterismo

El Filibusterismo

“The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.”

José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere

Source: Noli Me Tángere

“Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.”

José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere

Source: Noli Me Tángere

“It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others…Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.”

José Rizal

"Laughter and Tears", an essay (c.1884)

“The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.”

José Rizal

Letter to the Young Women of Malolos (22 February 1889) - translated from Tagalog by Gregorio Zaide

“In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.”

José Rizal

Letter to Fr. Pastells (11 November 1892)

“Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers!”

José Rizal

Noli me Tangere

“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”

José Rizal

Letter to the Young Women of Malolos

“Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive.”

José Rizal

Noli me Tangere

“Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.”

José Rizal

"The Philippines: A Century Hence"

“Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.”

José Rizal

"The Philippines: A Century Hence"

“God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.”

José Rizal

"Los Viajes"

“Each one writes history according to his convenience.”

José Rizal

Letter to Blumentritt, written at Leipzig,(22 August 1886)

“The world laughs at another man's pain.”

José Rizal

"Song of the Wanderer", st.8 - translated by Nick Joaquin.