Embracing Rizalism as a Way of Life

Jose Rizal, a hero!

Many of our youth today equate Rizal, the hero with martyrdom, death!

Being a hero isn't "cool", this is for "freaks". Jose Rizal is no longer "in".

Distinguished members of the board of judges, ladies and gentlemen –

I don't have to go into detailed account of dates, places and people in the biography of Pepe. No!

All literate Filipinos start their lesson in history with the stories of the boy from Calamba, Laguna.

Rizal lived his life in an extraordinary way.

I don't need to make a deep analysis of his ideas in education, philosophy, religion, politics, human behavior, ethics, in society. No, I leave that to the scholars.

What I choose to talk to you about is how I could live my life today with a little piece of Rizal in me.

Yes, I have to be in my own little way a mirror of what Rizal envisioned of every Filipino.

The youth is the hope of the fatherland. This is no longer a......

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