Angelo Postanes

“It is just as our history teaches us: we can only achieve real progress when we learn to think as a nation. And we can only be a nation when we have learned to share each other's pain.”
― Gideon Lasco, The Philippines Is Not a Small Country

“Pinararangalan ko ang ama dahil sa anak, ngunit hindi ang anak dahil sa ama.
Mula kay Pilosopong Tasio sa Kabanata 14: Tasiong Baliw o Pilosopo”
― Virgilio S. Almario, Noli Me Tángere

“In the aftermath of the Edsa Revolution, Thai protesters filled the streets of Bangkok. Another man stood before another tank at Tiananmen Square. The Berlin Wall fell, with Germany thanking the Philippines for showing them the way. Once upon a time, we were heroes.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing

“President Duterte said kill the addicts, and the addicts died. He said kill the mayors, and the mayors died. He said kill the lawyers, and the lawyers died. Sometimes the dead weren’t drug dealers or corrupt mayors or human rights lawyers. Sometimes they were children, but they were killed anyway, and the president said they were collateral damage.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing