Our ills we owe to ourselves, so let us blame no one else . . . . So long as the Philippines has not sufficient energy to proclaim, with her head erect and her bosom bare, her right to social life and her determination to guarantee this with her sacrifice and her very blood; so long as she sees her countrymen in their private life ashamed among themselves, while they hear the voice of conscience rebelling and protesting; so long as in public life they are silent and give consent to those who abuse them, and even laugh at the abuses; so long as we see them making light of the most wicked action, and even begging with their eyes for a portion of the booty, -- how can they be granted liberty? With Spain or without Spain they would be the same, -- and perhaps, perhaps, worse without her! Why should we be independent if the slaves of today are to be the tyrants of tomorrow?"
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