Philippine Revolution Quotes

“For Filipinos, revolution was not just a crash course in warfare, it was a school of learning. The forms of writing and composition corresponded to the exigencies of the time: proclamations, manifestoes, improvisatory theater, verses, and songs. The literature produced was not just war propaganda but texts that aimed to constitute a nation.”
― Resil B. Mojares, Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T. H. Pardo De Tavera, Isabelo De Los Reyes and the Production of Modern Knowledge

“What remains in the aftermath of four decades of American rule and thirty years of Philippine independence-- when peasant demands have not been stilled and peasant organizations continue to grow--reaffirms to us the peasants’ conviction that the “social regeneration implicit and promised in the Revolution of 1896-1902 has yet to be obtained.”
― Milagros C. Guerrero, Luzon at War: Contradictions in Philippine Society, 1898-1902