Peter G. Gowing > Quotes

“Respecting the overall social characteristics of the Philippines Muslims, it is not too much to affirm that they have been endowed with great capacity for hard work, indomitable courage, alert intelligence, a freedom-loving disposition, native pride coupled with a fierce sense of clan responsibility, and inclinations toward the artistic.”
― Peter G. Gowing

“The people who became Muslim had their separate cultures and ways of life before they were Islamized and much of the separateness had persisted to the present time. pg. 6”
― Peter G. Gowing, Mosque and Moro: a study of Muslims in the Philippines

“...military operations, even when employing the Colt .45 (developed to stop juramentados dead in their tracks) and the Krag rifle, achieved no permanent results in pacifying the Muslims. The Americans were faced with the choice of annihilating the Muslims altogether or changing their tactics. Fortunately, they choose the latter course. They began to pursue a policy of friendship, aid and toleration. American civil officers earned the confidence of the Muslim sultans and datus, established free public schools, built roads and enhanced the Muslims'opportunities for progress.”
― Peter G. Gowing, Mosque and Moro: a study of Muslims in the Philippines