Quote #54

One of the best exemplars of nationalist thinking.

More from Jose Rizal

  1. To echo the first Filipino, you get the Rizal you deserve. (alluding to Rizal's statement, 'You get the government you deserve')
  2. Rizal is the spirit of contradiction; a soul that dreads the revolution, although deep down desires it.
  3. The first Filipino.
  4. A gem of a man. (Un perla de hombre.)
  5. The choice of Rizal as a national hero was a master stroke by the Americans.
  6. His coming to the world is like the appearance of a rare comet, whose brilliance appears only every other century.
  7. Under what clime or what skies, has tyranny claimed a nobler victim?
  8. The life Rizal lived is a more abiding gift than the things he said and wrote. His life will forever be of inestimable importance.

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