The daughter of the Philippine president recently got married in a private ceremony that the public had no prior knowledge. I thought that engagement rings are supposed to become dead giveaways but apparently, she was so good in hiding it. Never was such an event of a high profile personality kept so secret without much effort. The lady after all, was so simple in her lifestyle that nobody really paid her so much attention. This perhaps, is one personality worth emulating for the next occupants of presidential residences, all over the world.
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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