

If our country is some day to be free, it will not be through vice and crime, it will not be through the corruption of its sons, some deceived, others bribed redemption presupposes virtue virtue, sacrifice, and sacrifice, love! Hate only creates monsters crime, criminals only love can work wonders, only virtue can redeem. You believed that what crime and iniquity had stained and deformed, more crime and more iniquity could cleanse and redeem.


The glory of saving a country cannot be given to one who has contributed to its ruin. From Jose Rizal’s El Filibusterismo, translated by Leon Ma.
