As a young kid, I remember spending hours staring at my little siblings with my chin rested in their baby cribs. It felt so amazing to look at those little creatures as they quietly sleep or drink their mils while looking back at you. Now, they have all grown so big and somehow, looking at them is not quite as cool as it used to. However, the soothing feeling that I got when I stared at them while they quietly slept, finished their drinks, smiled back at you while lying down, sitting or bouncing in their baby furniture was priceless. That my friends, I will never forget.
One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s...
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