Rizal Quotes

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

~ Ambeth R. Ocampo

We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

~ José Rizal

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

~ Ambeth R. Ocampo

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

~ Ambeth R. Ocampo

A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution.

~ F. Sionil José