Dennis

“We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.”
― Ambeth Ocampo, Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

“There is a great similarity between legal evidence and historical evidence. The only difference lies in the fact that in legal evidence it is the judge who determines whether the account of a witness is acceptable or not... The historian is prosecuting attorney and defense attorney and the judge all rolled into one, and he is the narrator and the interpreter.”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of "Veneration Without Understanding." Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.”
― Ambeth Ocampo, Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

“What hurts us is what heals us”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph