Jose Rizal
Jose Rizal
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda or popularly known as José Rizalwas a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain. He was executed by the Spanish colonial government for the crime of rebellion after an anti-colonial revolution, inspired in part by his writings, broke...
NationalityFilipino
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 June 1861
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.
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.
He who would love much has also much to suffer.
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.