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| QUOTES TO PONDER Well, I believe it is crime for anyone who is brutalized to continue to accept brutality without doing something to defend himself --Malcolm X, "Autobiography of Malcolm X" Means and Ends I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. --Martin Luther King, Jr., " Letter from Birmingham Jail" Prejudice I have seen prejudice, like evil shadow, everywhere; I have felt its dreaded power in school, in clubs and churches. It is an ever-present evil spirit, felt though unseen, wounding hearts, cutting souls. --Constantine Panunzio,"In the American Storm" Society Evil societies always kill their consciences. --James Farmer, "Lay Bare the Heart" The foregoing quotes were taken from the American Mosaic, 1986. Child and Father The child is the father's pride; the father is the child's strength. --Anonymous It is only when the corruption, killings and abuses reach unspeakable lows that we bestir ourselves to do something about them. --C. de Quiros "There's the Rub" Fortune You're the architect of your fortune. You're the architect of your misfortune, don't blame the world. --Swami Parthasarathy, "Stressed over investments? Think peace and happiness" We tend to rise to greatness, or larger-than-life demonstrations of heroism... but only after alowing our lives to a point where we are compelled to rise to greatness, ... to survive. --C. de Quiros History Our memories of the past should reconcile us with the discontents of the present. Forget the past and we libel the present. A sense of history gives our leaders and ourselves a sense of limits. --Joker A. Arroyo, "Filipinos failed Ninoy's dream",
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Human Rights Thank God our human rights do not depend on majority rule in a mobocracy. --Dean Froilan M. Bacungan, "Spirit of the Laws" Journalism I...hope my...newspaper is an opposition paper, if by opposition is meant opposed to wrongdoing, opposed to corruption, opposed to things that threaten our democratic way of life. That is not betraying journalistic duty, that is living up to it. --Conrado de Quiros Laughing Laughing at life is one of the best ways of ensuring it does not come to a premature end. -- quoted from an article entitled, "Enjoy a good laugh, you might live longer, scientists say" Men But it is also true that men who think of themselves as great, or are thought of as great by other men, are just in the arms of a woman. --Adrian Cristobal, "Sketches" The rich man and the poor man worry about the same things... money and death. --Anonymous Still a lot of people believe all over the world that their leader should be a moral man which means that people always expect their leader to behave according to universally accepted standards of right and wrong. --Zeneida Amador,"Principles of good governance VII" Music All the money you can make in this world cannot for one single moment equal the best musical piece. Money disappears and when demonetized is worthless. But music lingers, lives on. --M.L. Osorio, "All the Jazz 2000" Society Taking a stand on society is indeed difficult. Moving from childhood to the world of men, we are torn between conflicting forces of society. We must harness and channel the youthful raw energies to deal with the right issues at the right time. --Alejandro Clemente, "Outside Looking In" Societies that are corrupt, where wealth is created through rent-seeking activities and backroom deals that easily wilt under the lens of public transparency tend to be backward and underdeveloped. --Ramon del Rosario, Jr. as quoted by G.C. Cabacungan, Jr. In a war, no one wins. In peace, we all stand to gain. We must, therefore, build a society based on mutual trust, sincerity and partnership. --Pres. Joseph Estrada, "Speech on Freeing Political Prisoners" Subversion Subversion stems from economic, social and political causes and will not be solved by purely military solution. It can be curbed not with ever increasing repression but with a more equitable distribution of wealth, more democracy and more freedom. --Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, The undelivered speech of Ninoy,
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