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This Ninoy Aquino Day, here are 6 quotes that mirror our fight for democracy

This Ninoy Aquino Day, here are 6 quotes that mirror our fight for democracy

From "Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis," a Filipino masterpiece

Kirsten Olaño

- 8/21/2018 in Photos

As much as we try to avoid inequality, isolation, and ignorance, the drought keeps on coming back to us.

As a millennial, how far can you go to protect your country in order not to go back to the days when we were the slaves in our homeland?

In history up to these days, life and art imitate each other. One can cure the other, and vice versa.

Many great men in our history had lost their lives, heroes and nationalists, yet through them, we have gained democracy.

A message to the youth, the hope of the motherland.

It mirrors the relationship between the rich and the poor, the leaders and the followers, the government and the people.

Democracy.

A four-syllable word, filled with passion and integrity. A beautiful word linked to every Filipino from one generation to another: democracy.

And for almost four decades now, one name has been one of the most important symbols of patriotism in our country.

Today, August 21, as we remember the assassination of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr., let's allow ourselves to go back in time through Lav Diaz' " Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis", a film that is made for the new Juans and Juanas to remember that there is no greater love than the love for one's country.

Even so, for the past years, are we really taking the challenge of protecting what Jose, Andres, and Ninoy had given us? Or just like tin cans on the street, we let the outsiders kick us wherever they want just like what we were before?