"I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for."

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Source : "Worth dying for". Benigno Aquino, Jr.'s speech before the Asia Society in New York City, visayandailystar.com. August 4, 1980.

Benigno Aquino, Jr.

#Dying Quotes #Filipino Quotes

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“If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.”

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