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What does it mean?
The speaker seeks a place free from oppression and religious violence.
In plain terms
I want a place with no slaves, hangmen, or killing in faith's name.
What can you take from it?
Seek environments where faith and justice coexist.

Where it applies

  • escaping persecution
  • seeking asylum
  • spiritual refuge

Putting it to work

  • seek just places
  • reject religious violence
  • value life

Questions to consider

  • Where can you find safety?
  • What makes a place sacred?

Another view

Perfect places free from all harm may not exist.

More from Jose Rizal

  1. Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, To die to give you life, to rest under your sky; And in your enchanted land forever sleep.

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  2. I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!

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  3. It breaks immortality's neck Contemplates crime and therefore halts it; It humbles barbarous nations And makes of savages, champions.

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