Civico-educational Lectures, Volume 1

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Bureau of Printing., 1910
 

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Página 9 - ... that no law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances; that no law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and that the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship without discrimination or preference shall forever be allowed.
Página 12 - Many talk of liberty without understanding it; many believe that if they have liberty they have complete freedom to do the bad and good alike. Liberty is freedom to do right and never wrong; it is ever guided by reason and the upright and honorable conscience of the individual. The robber is not free, but is the slave of his own passions, and when we put him in prison we punish him. precisely because he is unwilling to use true freedom. Liberty does not mean that we shall obey nobody, but commands...
Página 7 - That no law shall be enacted in said Islands which shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or deny to any person therein the equal protection of the laws.
Página 7 - ... that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted; that...
Página 16 - Countrymen: I have given proof, as much as has any, of desiring the liberties for my country, and I continue to desire them. But I set down as a premise the education of the people, so that, through instruction and labor, it might come to possess its own personality and might be worthy of those liberties.
Página 16 - Oxford and (2) to be elected a liberal member of Parliament, and to take an active part in the political life of his country. Although he once thought of taking orders, and even of becoming an architect,' he wrote from Oxford in 1846: " My great ambition would be to get one of the History Professorships here.
Página 16 - ... among themselves an apostle of regeneration in their Rizal — hero and martyr, who, in the last weeks of his life, on the very eve of the coming of America into the islands, said words like these to the people of his country- : " Fellow-countrymen ! No man has given greater proof than I of desiring liberties for our country, and I still desire them. But I make the training of the people a premise, so that they, by education and labor, might attain a personality of their own and become worthy...
Página 14 - One's native country is not merely his province, nor his town, still less the place where he was born; all provinces, all towns, and all places where a Filipino has been born, whatever religious belief he professes, and whatever dialect he speaks, form his native country.
Página 16 - Why should we be independent if the slaves of today are to be the tyrants of tomorrow?
Página 16 - Filipino who does his duty to-day will acquaint himself with the principles and plans of the political parties of his town, province, and country.

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