Jose Rizal Quotes on Freedom
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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.
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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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I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; Where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
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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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There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.
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Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?