I don’t know what got into some female politicians in the world today. Some may have progesterone overload that they just wouldn’t give up despite overwhelming odds and seemingly lost causes. Why progesterone? Well, such chemical helps women get pregnant and perhaps, an overload of it makes them too stubborn, like a mom defending her child. There are at least a couple of lady senators in different senates and at least one incumbent leader who are like that. Perhaps, they need some downers to take them back to the ground.
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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