On August 19, the birth of Manuel L. Quezon—former President of the Philippines and acknowledged "Father of the National Language"—will once again be remembered in "Buwan ng Wika" celebrations throughout the country, but this time with the added dimension that this year's theme is "Wikang Filipino: Mula Baler Hanggang Buong Pilipinas" (The Filipino Language: From Baler to the Rest of the Philippines). Baler was Quezon's birth place.
The speech below is my translation of excerpts from "Manuel Quezon on the National Language." It is being shared here for the benefit of students looking for a speech to recite in class. It may not be reproduced, whether in print or online, without my permission.
Wikang Pambansa
Manuel L. Quezon
Hindi ko nais na Kastila o Ingles ang maging wika ng Pamahalaan. Kailangan magkaroon ng sariling wika ang Pilipinas, isang wikang nakabatay sa isa sa mga katutubong wika.
Nagmula ang karamihan ng mga suliranin o pagkukulang na kasalukuyang nararanasan dito sa kawalan ng ating sariling wikang pambansa. Ang pagnanais gayahin ang lahat ng kilos banyaga kahit hindi alam kung ito'y mabuti o masama ay dahil sa isang kahinaan—ang kakulangan ng isang tunay na pambansang kamalayan. Hindi maaring magkaroon ng pambansang kamalayan kung saan walang wikang ginagamit ng lahat.
Naunawaan ko lamang kung gaano kahirap ang kakulangan ng wikang pambansa noong naging Pangulo ako. Ako ang Pangulo ng Pilipinas; ako ang kumakatawan sa bayang Pilipinas at sa mga Pilipino. Ngunit kapag ako'y naglalakbay sa mga lalawigan at kinakausap ang aking mga kapwa mamamayan, kailangan ko ng tagapagsalin. Nakakahiya, hindi ba?
Sang-ayon ako sa patuloy na pagtuturo sa Ingles sa mga paaralan at itataguyod ko rin ang pagpapatuloy ng Kastila. Subalit dumating na ang panahon upang magkaroon tayo ng isang wikang pambansa. Ang suliranin ay gusto ng mga Ilokano na Ilokano ang wikang pambansa; ang mga Tagalog, Tagalog; ang mga Bisaya, Bisaya.
Ako ay Tagalog. Kung sasabihin ng mga dalubhasa sa iba't-ibang wikang Pilipino na Mangyan ang katutubong wikang pinakamainam gamitin, Mangyan ang tatangkilikin ko higit sa ibang wika. Tagalog ang ginagamit namin sa pamilya. Pero handa akong mag-aral ng Ilokano, Bisaya o anupamang ibang katutubong wika para lamang magkaroon tayo ng wikang ginagamit ng lahat.
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Talumpati: Manuel L. Quezon —
Wikang Pambansa
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Sabayang Bigkas: Buntong-hibik ng Anakpawis
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I first thought of posting this poem a few years ago because of a wrongly remembered first line, which I thought was "Pinag-aaralan na naman nila kami" (They're studying us again), an appropriate reminder for PhD students like me and other researchers that conducting research involving real people is very different from working with test tubes and mice.
The actual first line is a bit different, evoking both academic and colloquial readings. But the fact that the text is laid out on the page in the shape of a microscope in Albert Alejo's Sanayan Lang ang Pagpatay (1993) suggests that what I remembered was not too far off the mark. I cannot, unfortunately, reproduce the poem's format in this blog.
Anyway, I've been getting requests for pieces that can be used in group oratorical contests (or timpalak sabayang bigkas, in Tagalog) usually held during Buwan ng Wika, so here's a poem whose title is difficult to translate literally, but may be understood as the "complaint of the masses."
Buntong-hibik ng Anakpawis
Albert E. Alejo, SJ
Pinag-uusapan na naman nila kami.
Pinagpupulungan. Pinapupurihan. Pinagpapasyahan.
Pinag-aaralan. Pinagkakakitaan. Pinararangalan.
Inuunawa. Iniluluha. Iniluluwa.
Ipinipinta. Ikinakanta. Pinakakasta.
Isinusulat. Iniuulat. Pinagbubulatlat.
Itinutula. Idinudula. Pinatitihaya.
Ibinabalita. Binabata. Pinagbababatuta.
Ginagabayan. Binabagayan. Binabayagan.
Inaaliw. Ginigiliw. Binabaliw.
Pinag-aalayan ng sanlaksang pananaliksik.
Pinaglalakuan ng sanrekwang mga gimik.
Pinangangakuan. Pinaaasam. Pinaghihintay.
Pinaaasa. Pinag-aalsa.
Pinalalaban.
Pinagigising.
Pinasusugod.
Pinasisigaw.
Pinapapatay.
Pinapatay.
Pinaglalamayan.
Inililibing.
Nilalambing.
Nililimot.
Pagkatapos—
Pag-iisipan na naman nila kami.
Tambakan ng pinagsawaang mga gamit.
Sanayan ng pana-panahong pagpapakabait.
Sangkalan ng kung anu-anong mga project.
Basurahan ng pulang aklat, banal na aklat, lihim na aklat.
Ideolohiya. Liturhiya. Propaganda.
Artista. Aktibista. Rekrutista.
Armalayt. Chokolait. Johnny Midnight.
Propesor. Tomador. Kolektor.
CO. OXO. SPARROW.
Pusher. Holdaper. Illegal logger.
Lay-off. Jaywalk. Cut throat.
Saudi. IUD. White Slavery.
Gala. Opera. Gonorrhea.
Fertilizer. Bulldozer. Land grabber.
IMF. CHDF. MNLF.
Puting bakod. Parada sa airport. Ahas at gamot.
Eskirol. Suhol. Ataul.
POPCOM. METROCOM. AVSECOM.
Demolisyon. Demonstrasyon. Rebolusyon.
Maghalal. Magdasal. Magsalsal.
Ave Maria. Makibaka. Potang-ina!
Pinagtutulung-tulungan lang kami nila.
Mga mapagpaimbabaw.
At Ikaw,
Takbuhan-Timbulan-Silungan
Daan-Buhay-Katotohanan
Ilaw-Araw-Tanglaw
Ligaya-Pag-asa
Bathala-Allah-Ama-Abbah—
Isa ka pa rin ba sa kanila?
The Tagalog used is not only difficult to pronounce, it is also not easily understood. Some terms will not not be found in dictionaries or the Internet, and may require students to consult a history book or someone who lived in Manila during the 70s and 80s.
The speech is reproduced here, with the author's permission, so that it may be used by students. The speech, however, may not be reproduced, whether in print or online, without the author's consent.
Talumpati: Raul Manglapus
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See also the category "Talumpati."It used to be that every last Sunday of August was National Heroes Day. But because of the "holiday economics" law, the holiday has been moved to every last Monday of August. So this post is technically late as a tribute to our heroes, but it's still in time for the end of Buwan ng Wika.
"Land of Bondage, Land of the Free" was a speech delivered by Raul Manglapus as a student in 1939. The translation below by Onofre Pagsanghan of an excerpt from this speech was first published in Makabagong Pilipino (1967).
The translation—with a few modifications—is reproduced here with the translator's permission, so that it may be used by students looking for a speech to recite in class. It may not be reproduced, whether in print or online, without the translator's consent. See "An Open Letter to C. S. Canonigo" for possible consequences of unauthorized reproduction.
Lupa ng Alipin, Lupa ng Malaya
Raul Manglapus
Mga ginoo, ang tao ay naparito ngayon... hindi upang hukuman, kundi upang humukom. Pakinggan ninyo ang kanyang pag-uusig at ang kanyang hatol:
Inuusig ko ang Kastilang enkomenderong tumuklas ng mga buwis na di makakayang balikatin!
Inuusig ko ang usurerong nagpataw sa akin ng mga pautang na di makakayang mabayaran!
Inuusig ko ang walang pananagutang mga pinuno at ang kanilang mapanilong pananalumpati na sumisira sa aming pananalig sa ating pamahalaan!
Inuusig ko ang hacenderong mapanlinlang na umagaw ng aking lupa't bumusabos sa akin!
Inuusig ko ang kanyang pagkitil sa marangal na pagsisikap ng marangal na pamahalaan sa dambana ng kanyang walang hangganang kasakiman.
Pinararatangan ninyo ako sa di pagtaguyod ng aking asawa't mga anak. Lagutin ninyo ang tanikala ng aking pagkaalipin, at pabubulaanan ko ang inyong bintang!
Pinararatangan ninyo ako ng kamangmangan. Ngunit ako'y mangmang sapagkat ikinayayaman ng aking panginoong ako'y panatilihing mangmang. Lagutin ninyo ang tanikala ng aking pagkaalipin, at pabubulaanan ko ang inyong bintang!
Pinararatangan ninyo ako ng katamaran. Ngunit ang aking katamara'y bunga hindi ng kawalan ng pagnanasa, kundi ng kawalan ng pag-asa. Bakit ako magsisikap, kung ang lahat ng magiging bunga ng aking pagsisikap ay uuwi lamang sa pagbawas ng utang na di naman mababawasan! Lagutin ninyo ang tanikala ng aking pagkaalipin, at pabubulaanan ko ang inyong bintang!
Bigyan ninyo ako ng lupang masasaka. Lupang magiging akin. Lupang walang kinikilalang hari-harian. Lupang magiging malaya. Ibigay ninyo sa akin sapagkat ako'y nagdarahop. Ibigay ninyo sa akin nang ang aking mga supling ay di mangamatay. Ipagbili ninyo sa akin, ipagbili ninyo sa halagang makatarungan, tulad ng pagbibilihan ng mga taong malaya at di tulad ng pagbibili ng usurero sa alipin. Ako'y maralita. Ngunit ako'y magbabayad. Ako'y magsisikap, magsisikap hanggang sa ako'y manlupaypay, makamtan ko lamang ang aking karangala't karapatang maging malaya!
Ngunit kung hindi ninyo pauunlakan itong aking huling pagsamo, itong aking huling kahilingan, magtayo na kayo ng moog sa paligid ng inyong mga tahanan... pagkataasan ninyo!... pagkatibayan ninyo!... maglagay kayo ng tanod sa bawat sulok!... sapagkat akong nanatiling tahimik ng tatlong daang taon ay darating sa gabi sa gitna ng inyong handaan, kasabay ng aking sigaw at tabak sa inyong pintuan. At kahabagan nawa ng Diyos ang inyong kaluluwa!
Talumpati: Onofre Pagsanghan
— Ang Makahiya
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See also the category "Talumpati."August 19—the birth anniversary of Manuel L. Quezon, former president of the Philippines and acknowledged "Father of the National Language"—is a non-working holiday in Quezon City and the provinces of Quezon and Aurora.
"Ang Makahiya" (literally, the shy plant) by Onofre Pagsanghan was first published in Makabagong Pilipino (1967), where the same author's "Sa Kabataan" also first appeared (contrary to what I wrote in that earlier post).
The speech is reproduced here with the author's permission, so that it may be used by students looking for a speech to recite in class. The speech may not be reproduced, whether in print or online, without the author's consent. See "An Open Letter to C. S. Canonigo" for possible consequences of unauthorized reproduction.
Ang Makahiya
Onofre Pagsanghan
May damong ligaw sa ating bayan na kung tawagin nati'y "Makahiya." Huwag mong makanti ang damong ito't dagling iikom. At kapag ito'y nakaikom na'y mahirap mo na uling mapabukadkad. Ang Makahiya ay maraming tinik. Kapag nagkamali ka nang tangan ay dagli kang magagalusan. Ang Makahiya ay walang bunga, walang katuturan -- hindi gamot, hindi rin gulay. Ang "Makahiya" ay balakid sa paglaki ng ibang tanim na napapakinabangan. Kung kaya't ang "Makahiya" ay binubunot, tinatapon, at sinisigan; sapagka't kapag napabayaan kay bilis nitong kakalat at maghahari-harian sa buong halamanan.
Taglay ng marami sa ating mga kababayan ang isang kaugaliang tulad ng "Makahiya." Ito'y ang labis na pagkamahiyain. Ang karupukang ito'y isang balakid sa pag-unlad. Ayaw mamuno. Nahihiya. Kiming sumalungat sa kasamaan. Nahihiya. Kiming ipagtanggol ang katarungan. Nahihiya. Kiming makipagpaligsahan. Nahihiya. Ayaw maiba sa karamihan. Nahihiya. Takot mag-isa kahit na sa gawang kabutihan. Nahihiya.
Ang labis na hiya'y nagsusupling pa rin ng ibang karupukan. Ang labis na mahiyain kapag napagsabihan ay nagtatampo; kapag napagsalitaan ay nagmamaktol; kapag napulaan ay nasisiraan ng loob; kapag sumama ang loob ay di na makikiisa kahit na sa kanyang sariling ikauunlad. Ito'y mga karupukang supling ng labis na hiya.
Ako ang huling magpapayong itapon natin sa hangin ang hiya. Ang taong walang hiya ay masahol kaysa taong labis ang hiya. Ang aking iminumungkahi ay ang wastong pagpapahalaga sa hiya. Ikahiya ang dapat ikahiya -- ang paggawa ng masama, ang paglabag sa utos ng Diyos, ang paglapastangan sa kapuwa. Nguni't huwag nating payagang ang ating hiya ay pumigil sa ating pag-unlad sa kasaganaan. Huwag nating payagang magapos tayo ng labis na hiya sa pagsalungat sa kasamaan. Huwag nating payagang ang ating hiya ay maging isang damong ligaw na sasakal sa ating pagpupunyagi sa kabutihan. Lagutin natin ang gapos ng labis na hiya. Bunutin natin ang damong "Makahiya" sa ating katauhan -- bunutin at sigan. Lakas loob na umusad sa ikasasagana ng bayan. Lakas loob na bumukod at sumalungat sa kasamaan. Lakas-loob na ipagsanggalang, kahit na mag-isa, ang katarungan. Lakas-loob na magpunyagi sa ipagtatagumpay ng kabutihan.
C. S. Canonigo Replies
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After posting "An Open Letter to C. S. Canonigo," it became the most commented post in recent memory, with messages of support coming from Filipinos and non-Filipinos, librarians and non-librarians, and bloggers who wrote about it: Ederic, Marhgil, Zarah, Igor and Nix. People whom I did not know were reading my blog also expressed their support when I met them in person. To all of you, thank you very much!
A few days after that post, I was a panelist at the Books Across Southeast Asia conference, and got the chance to raise my concern at a panel on copyright issues. The most significant advice I got was from Mrs. Karina Bolasco of Anvil Publishing, who expressed surprise that my deadline for withdrawing the book was more than a month away and suggested that I write a letter to Mrs. Socorro Ramos of National Book Store, which she would personally give to Mrs. Ramos.
Well, it took me a while before I got around to writing the letter requesting that National withdraw all the books, and ask her and her publisher to attest that all their other books were free of copyright problems, but I finally gave it to Mrs. Bolasco and guess what? Maybe the letter to Mrs. Ramos had the desired effect, maybe not, but within two days, after weeks of silence, I got the following comment on the old post:Dear Von Totanes,
So what's next? I am currently in the middle of finishing a long-overdue paper, but I plan to get in touch with her by early next week. I still don't know what my position will be, including whether I should bring a lawyer with me, but rest assured that I'll be writing about it here =)
I read your open letter few days ago. I was terribly surprised. U know, so many students are contributing their researched works to me re: speeches, poems, essays. When I received speeches of Marcos, Magsaysay, Quezon, etc. I happily included them in my Talumpati book. I even said, "Naku, mabubuhay uli ang pangalan nila sa book ko." In the speech of Onofre Pagsanhan, I saw the names of Cabunagan and Alvarez. I tried to contact them by calling all the same family names in the directory but no one seems to know them so I decided to retain their names the way they were written. Von, that was my greatest mistake! I became careless in including those speeches. Buong akala ko talaga mga talumpati yun nina Marcos in Tagalog. Dami na rin kasi akong speeches nila in English. Yung mga nag contribute hindi nila inilagay ang source, wala rin ang name mo. Von, I am terribly sorry for causing you mental agony thinking that I stole your work. I'm willing to make amends with you and offer you some options, so at least I can compensate you in some way. God knows, Von, I never meant to offend you or grab credit for your work. It was an honest mistake, believe me. I am apologizing for causing you emotional disturbance. Hindi ko agad nasagot ang open letter mo kasi nagluluksa pa ako. Kamamatay lang ng mister ko nung August. Kahapon lang ang 40 Days niya. Sana Von, you'll contact me so we can talk. This is my mobile phone # XXXXXXXXXXX. Am still in Cebu now. Next week I will be in Manila. This is my Mnla landline XXXXXXX. May God enlighten our minds and show us the right path to settle everything for our mutual benefit. God bless.
C.S.CANONIGO
P.S.
To my reading fans,
I'm sorry for the mistake I committed. Sa more than 100 books na naisulat ko in 24 years, this is the very first time na nakasakit ako ng damdamin ng kapwa ko manunulat. Sana'y mapatawad ninyo ako.
Cristina Santos Canonigo
An Open Letter to C. S. Canonigo
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See also "C. S. Canonigo Replies."
Dear Ms. Cristina Santos Canonigo,
I am writing to you in connection with the following book:
Talumpati! Talumpati! Talumpati!Specifically, I refer to the following speeches reproduced in the book:
Book One: Pantulong sa mga Guro't Mag-aaral
Tinipon at Isinaayos ni C. S. Canonigo
Karapatang-ari 2006 ni Cristina Santos Canonigo
Reserbado ang lahat ng karapatan (All Rights Reserved)
ISBN 971-846-052-7
Unang Limbag: December, 2006
Inilathala ng TCB Book Supply
Selling price at National Bookstore: 48 pesos
Pananalig (Pangulong Ramon Magsaysay), pp. 51-52I was not born yesterday. The speeches enumerated above were taken from my blog. They were delivered in English, and I translated them into Tagalog. But no mention is made in the book, for which you have claimed copyright, of the original language in which the speeches appeared or of their translator.
Muling Maging Dakila (Pangulong Ferdinand E. Marcos), pp. 53-54
Mensahe sa Aking Mga Kababayan (Pang. Manuel L. Quezon), pp. 55-56
Could it be that you made your own translations, and it just so happened that the words you used corresponded exactly with mine? But how do you explain the fact that the last words of "Sa Kabataan" (Onofre Pagsanghan), pp. 47-49, are the same as those of my post? I think it is too much of a coincidence that you acknowledge the same persons that I did in the exact same words that I used: "Thanks to Ronald Cabunagan and Francis Alvarez, SJ, for their assistance in obtaining the text."
For your information, the content of this blog is protected by a Creative Commons license, which states that my posts are free to be copied, distributed and transmitted under certain conditions, of which the most relevant to this case are:
Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.You have violated both of the conditions and I certainly did not grant permission because it was not sought. Hence, I demand that you pull out all the copies of the book from all distribution outlets by 30 September 2007. If you ignore this demand, then I will be forced to take legal action, not to mention use everything at my disposal—including the choice words I have refrained from employing thus far—to make sure that everyone who might possibly buy the book knows that you reap where you do not sow.
Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
Vernon Totanes
Filipino Librarian
PRC License No. 4154
Talumpati: Andres Bonifacio
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See also the category "Talumpati."November 30 is Bonifacio Day.
A tula (poem) is not exactly the same as a talumpati (speech), but if a student were to recite the poem by Andres Bonifacio below for a class in Filipino, I don't think any teacher would object.
The Tagalog text is from Katapusang Hibik ng Filipinas at Iba Pang Tula (pdf, via Pantas), while the translation by Teodoro Agoncillo is from The Writings and Trial of Andres Bonifacio (via Bonifacio Papers). Words enclosed in brackets in the English translation—but not the original—are mine.
This poem has also been turned into a song. Chords are available via PRWC, while an mp3 file may be downloaded at MP3Pilipinas.com. However, because I have heard neither song, it's possible that these are two different songs.
Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa
Andres Bonifacio
Aling pag-ibig pa ang hihigit kaya
Sa pagkadalisay at pagkadakila
Gaya ng pag-ibig sa tinub’ang lupa?
Aling pag-ibig pa? Wala na nga, wala...
Walang mahalagang hindi inihandog
Ng may pusong mahal sa Bayang kumupkop;
Dugo, yaman, dunong, katiisa’t pagod,
Buhay ma’y abuting magkalagot-lagot...
Sa kaniya’y utang ang unang pagtanggap
Ng simoy ng hanging nagbigay-lunas
Sa inis na puso na sisinghap-singhap
Sa balong malalim ng siphayo’t hirap...
Ang nangakarang panahon ng aliw
Ang inaasahang araw na darating
Ng pagkatimawa ng mga alipin,
Liban pa sa bayan saan tatanghalin?...
Kung ang bayang ito’y nasasapanganib
At siya ay dapat ipagtangkilik
Ang anak, asawa, magulang, kapatid
Isang tawag niya’y tatalikdang pilit...
Nasaan ang dangal ng mga Tagalog?
Nasaan ang dugong dapat na ibuhos?
Baya’y inaapi, bakit di kumilos
At natitilihang ito’y mapanood?...
Kayong mga dukhang walang tanging [palad]
Kundi ang mabuhay sa dalita’t hirap
Ampunin ang Bayan kung nasa ay lunas
Pagkat ang ginhawa niya ay sa lahat.
Ipaghandog-handog ang buong pag-ibig,
Hangang sa may dugo’y ubusing itigis,
Kung sa pagtatanggol buhay ay [mapatid]
Ito’y kapalaran at tunay na langit.
Love of Country
Andres Bonifacio
What love can be
purer and greater
than love of country?
What love? No other love, none...
Nothing dear to a person with a pure heart
is denied to the country that gave him birth:
blood, wealth, knowledge, sacrifices,
E'en if life itself ends...
To her one owes the first kiss
of the wind that is the balm
of the oppressed heart drowning
in the deep well of misfortune and suffering...
The bygone days of joy,
the future that is hoped
will free the slaves,
where can this be found but in one's native land?...
If this country is in danger
and she needs defending,
Forsaken are the [child, wife, parent, sibling]
at the country's beck and call...
Where is the honor of the Filipino?
where is the blood that should be shed?
The country is being oppressed, why not make a move,
you are shocked witnessing this...
You who are poor without [recourse]
except to live in poverty and suffering,
protect the country if your desire is to end
your sufferings, for her progress is for all.
Dedicate with all your love—
as long [as] there is blood—shed every drop of it,
If for the defense of the country life is [lost]
this is fate and true glory.
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Talumpati: Ferdinand Marcos
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See also the category "Talumpati." And whether you found what you were looking for or not, please leave a comment below so I can help you better.Before September 11 was hijacked and became 9/11, the day was better known to Filipinos as the birthday of Ferdinand Marcos, former President of the Philippines.
There is a lot that has already been written about Marcos—and there's probably a lot more that will never be written—but this post will focus only on his inaugural address on 30 December 1965.
He talked about "a young patriot... [who] fell from a tyrant’s bullet and out of the martyr’s blood that flowed copiously there sprang a new nation." He was, of course, referring to Jose Rizal and the birth of the first Philippine republic, but he may as well have been predicting the death of Ninoy Aquino and the end of his dictatorship, too.
The excerpt below is taken from the Marcos Presidential Center. The translation is mine.
To Be Great Again
Ferdinand Marcos
Sixty-nine years ago today, a young patriot and prophet of our race fell upon his beloved soil. He fell from a tyrant’s bullet and out of the martyr’s blood that flowed copiously there sprang a new nation.
That nation became the first modern republic in Asia and Africa. It is our nation. We are proud to point to our country as one stable in an area of stability; where ballots, not bullets, decide the fate and parties.
Thus Kawit and Malolos are celebrated in our history as acts of national greatness. Why national greatness? Because, armed with nothing but raw courage and passionate intelligence and patriotism, our predecessors built the noble edifice of the First Asian Republic.
Today the challenge is less dramatic but no less urgent. We must repeat the feat of our forebears in a more commonplace sphere, away from the bloody turmoil of heroic adventure – by hastening our social and economic transformation. For today, the Filipino, it seems, has lost his soul, his dignity and his courage.
This nation can be great again. This I have said over and over. This is my article of faith, and Divine Providence has willed that you and I can now translate this faith into deeds. I have repeatedly told you: each generation writes its own history. Our forbears have written theirs. With fortitude and excellence we must write ours.
This is your dream and mine. By your choice you have committed yourselves to it. Come then, let us march together towards the dream of greatness.
Muling Maging Dakila
Ferdinand Marcos
Sa araw na ito, animnapu't siyam na taon na ang nakalipas, namatay ang isang batang bayani at propeta ng ating lipi sa kanyang minamahal na lupain. Isang bala ng diktador ang pumaslang sa kanya, at mula sa pagdaloy ng dugo ng martir ay tumubo ang isang bagong bansa.
Ang bansang iyon ang naging unang makabagong republika sa Asya at Africa. Ito ang ating bansa. Ipinagmamalaki nating matatag ang ating bayan sa isang rehiyong matatag; kung saan balota, at hindi bala, ang humuhusga sa kapalaran at mga partido.
Kung kaya pinararangalan natin sa ating kasaysayan ang Kawit at Malolos bilang mga halimbawa ng pambansang kadakilaan. Bakit pambansang kadakilaan? Sapagkat itinayo ng ating mga ninuno ang matibay na haligi ng unang republika sa Asya na taglay lamang ang tapang, talino at kabayanihan.
Ngayon, ang hamon ay hindi na gaanong mapapansin, ngunit ito'y mahalaga pa rin. Kailangang ulitin natin ang mga ginawa ng ating mga ninuno sa isang mas karaniwang panahon, malayo sa madugo at dakilang pakikipagsapalaran – sa pamamagitan ng pagpapabilis ng pagbabago ng ating lipunan at kalakalan. Sapagkat ngayon, tila nalimutan na ng Pilipino ang kanyang diwa, dangal at tapang.
Maari pang muling maging dakila ang bayang ito. Paulit-ulit kong binabanggit ito. Ito ang aking pinaniniwalaan, at ninanais ng Poong Maykapal na tayo'y magtulungan upang isakatuparan ang ating panalangin. Maraming beses ko nang sinabi ito: sinusulat ng bawat salinlahi ang sariling kasaysayan. Naisulat na ng ating mga ninuno ang kanila. Tangan ang lakas ng loob at kahusayan, kailangang isulat natin ang atin.
Pangarap natin ito. Sa pagpili sa akin, inaako niyo ito. Samahan niyo ako sa pagkamit ng pangarap ng kadakilaan.
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Talumpati: Onofre Pagsanghan
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See also the category "Talumpati." And whether you found what you were looking for or not, please leave a comment below so I can help you better.Today is National Heroes Day.
"Sa Kabataan" (To the Youth) by Onofre Pagsanghan, first published in Hasik (Quezon City, 1976), is the only Tagalog speech I am aware of that was written so that first-year high school students could recite it in class.
I have divided the speech into two parts, which was how Pagsanghan divided it when he assigned it to my class many years ago. He then told us to choose one, memorize it and deliver it in class.
The speech ends with the words: "Ang tunay na pag-ibig sa bayan... ay nasa pawis ng gawa," which literally translates into "True love of country... lies in the sweat of action." My not-so-faithful translation: "Love is a verb."
Our national heroes acted on their love for their country. Some even died because of it. After all, true love is not just a feeling that comes and goes. True love goes beyond emotions and translates into action.
Sa Kabataan
Onofre Pagsanghan
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Isa sa mga salitang napag-aralan natin sa wikang Pilipino ay ang salitang "nabansot." Kapag ang isang bagay raw ay dapat pang lumaki ngunit ito’y tumigil na sa paglaki, ang bagay na ito raw ay nabansot. Marami raw uri ng pagkabansot, ngunit ang pinakamalungkot na uri raw ay ang pagkabansot ng isipan, ng puso, at ng diwa.Ang panahon ng kabataan ay panahon ng paglaki, ngunit ang ating paglaki ay kailangang paglaki at pag-unlad ng ating buong katauhan, hindi lamang ng ating sukat at timbang. Kung ga-poste man ang ating taas at ga-pison man ang ating bigat, ngunit kung ang pag-iisip naman nati’y ga-kulisap lamang, kay pangit na kabansutan. Kung tumangkad man tayong tangkad-kawayan, at bumilog man tayong bilog-tapayan, ngunit kung tayo nama’y tulad ni "Bondying" ay di mapagkatiwalaan—anong laking kakulangan. Kung magkakatawan tayong katawang "Tarzan" at mapatalas ang ating isipang sintalas ng kay Rizal, ngunit kung ang ating kalooban nama’y itim na duwende ng kasamaan—anong kapinsalaan para sa kinabukasan.
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Kinabukasan. Kabataan, tayo raw ang pag-asa ng Inang Bayan. Tayo raw ang maghahatid sa kanya sa langit ng kasaganaan at karangalan, o hihila sa kanya sa putik ng kahirapan at kahihiyan. Ang panahon ng pagkilos ay ngayon, hindi bukas, hindi sa isang taon. Araw-araw ay tumutuwid tayong palangit o bumabaluktot tayong paputik. Tamang-tama ang sabi ng ating mga ninunong kung ano raw ang kamihasnan ay siyang pagkakatandaan. Huwag nating akalaing makapagpapabaya tayo ng ating pag-aaral ngayon at sa araw ng bukas ay bigla tayong magiging mga dalubhasang magpapaunlad sa bayan. Huwag nating akalaing makapagdaraya tayo ngayon sa ating mga pagsusulit, makakupit sa ating mga magulang at sa mahiwagang araw ng bukas makakaya nating balikatin and mabibigat na suliranin ng ating bansa. Huwag nating akalaing makapaglulublob tayo ngayon sa kalaswaan at kahalayan, at sa mahiwagang araw ng bukas bigla tayong magiging ulirang mga magulang.
Kabataan, ang tunay na pag-ibig sa bayan, ang tunay na nasyonalismo, ay wala sa tamis ng pangarap, wala rin sa pagpag ng dila. Ang tunay na pag-ibig ay nasa pawis ng gawa.
Thanks to Ronald Cabunagan and Francis Alvarez, SJ, for their assistance in obtaining the text.
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Talumpati: Ramon Magsaysay
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See also the category "Talumpati." And whether you found what you were looking for or not, please leave a comment below so I can help you better.Ramon Magsaysay, former President of the Philippines, was born on 31 August 1907. After his unexpected demise in 1955, the Ramon Magsaysay Award was conceived to honor "greatness of spirit shown in service to the people." The first awards were given out in 1958. This year's awardees will be honored next week.
It is unclear what role the Credo below plays in the selection of awardees or in what context it was first pronounced, but it is quite obvious that many—even non-Filipinos—have been inspired if not by the Credo in its entirety, then at least by the second sentence.
The Tagalog translation is mine.
Credo
Ramon Magsaysay
I believe that government starts at the bottom and moves upward, for government exists for the welfare of the masses of the nation.
I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.
I believe that the little man is fundamentally entitled to a little bit more food in his stomach, a little more cloth in his back and a little more roof over his head.
I believe that this nation is endowed with a vibrant and stout heart, and possesses untapped capabilities and incredible resiliency.
I believe that a high and unwavering sense of morality should pervade all spheres of governmental activity.
I believe that the pulse of government should be strong and steady, and the men at the helm imbued with missionary zeal.
I believe in the majesty of constitutional and legal processes, in the inviolability of human rights.
I believe that the free world is collectively strong, and that there is neither need or reason to compromise the dignity of man.
I believe that communism is iniquity, as is the violence it does to the principles of Christianity.
I believe that the President should set the example of a big heart, an honest mind, sound instincts, the virtue of healthy impatience and an abiding love for the common man.
Pananalig
Ramon Magsaysay
Nananalig akong nagsisimula ang pamahalaan sa ibaba at kumikilos paitaas dahil ang pamahalaan ay narito para sa ikabubuti ng nakararami sa ating bayan.
Nananalig akong ang mas gipit sa buhay ay dapat mas higit sa batas.
Nananalig akong may angking karapatan ang karaniwang mamamayan sa mas higit na laman ng tiyan, mas higit na pananamit at mas higit na sisilungan.
Nananalig akong ang bayang ito ay nabiyayaan ng isang pusong masigla at magiting, at nagtataglay ng lihim na galing at nakamamanghang kakayahang salubungin ang mga hamong hinaharap.
Nananalig akong mamamayani sa lahat ng antas ng gawain ng pamahalaan ang dakila at walang-sawang pagtalima sa tawag ng kabutihan.
Nananalig akong malakas at tuwid ang pulso ng pamahalaan, at mayroong sigla ng misyonero ang mga pinuno nito.
Nananalig ako sa karangalan ng pamamaraang naaayon sa konstitusyon at sa batas, sa kahalagahan ng karapatang pantao.
Nananalig akong matatag ang kabuoan ng pandaigdigang lipunan, at walang pangangailangan o dahilan upang isantabi ang karangalan ng sangkatauhan.
Nananalig akong salot ang komunismo, ganoon din ang karahasang idinudulot nito sa mga pinahahalagahan ng Kristiyanismo.
Nananalig akong dapat maging halimbawa ang Pangulo ng pagkakaroon ng pusong mahabagin, pag-iisip na tapat, likas na kakayahang magpasiya, angkop na kawalan ng tiyaga at isang walang-hanggang pagmamahal sa karaniwang mamamayan.
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Talumpati: Benigno Aquino, Jr.
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See also the category "Talumpati." And whether you found what you were looking for or not, please leave a comment below so I can help you better.August 21, the day on which Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr., was assassinated 23 years ago, was declared a national holiday in 2004 by virtue of Republic Act No. 9256. The excerpts below were taken from the speech that Aquino never got to deliver. The translation is mine. (Updated URL for "speech" on 22 August 2006, because the old one did not cite its source.)
Undelivered Speech
Benigno Aquino, Jr.
I have returned on my free will to join the ranks of those struggling to restore our rights and freedoms through non-violence.
I seek no confrontation. I only pray and will strive for a genuine national reconciliation founded on justice.
I am prepared for the worst, and have decided against the advice of my mother, my spiritual adviser, many of my tested friends and a few of my most valued political mentors.
A death sentence awaits me. Two more subversion charges, both calling for death penalties, have been filed since I left three years ago and are now pending with the courts.
I could have opted to seek political asylum in America, but I feel it is my duty, as it is the duty of every Filipino, to suffer with his people especially in time of crisis.
I never sought nor have I been given any assurances, or promise of leniency by the regime. I return voluntarily armed only with a clear conscience and fortified in the faith that in the end, justice will emerge triumphant.
I return from exile and to an uncertain future with only determination and faith to offer—faith in our people and faith in God.
Talumpating Di Naipahayag
Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr.
Malaya akong nagbalik upang makiisa sa mga nagsisikap ibalik ang ating mga karapatan at kalayaan sa payapang pamamaraan.
Hindi ako naghahanap ng laban. Ipinagdarasal ko lamang at sisikapin kong magkaroon ng tunay na pambansang pagkakaisang katarungan ang batayan.
Nakahanda ako sa anumang mangyayari, at nagpasiyang suwayin ang payo ng aking ina, ng aking tagapayong espiritwal, marami sa aking mga matalik na kaibigan at ilan sa aking pinakapinahahalagahang gabay sa pulitika.
May nag-aabang na parusang kamatayan sa akin. Dalawa pang paratang ng paghihimagsik, na parehong kamatayan ang parusa, ang isinampa sa akin mula nang ako ay lumisan tatlong taon na ang nakaraan at ngayon ay nasa mga hukuman.
Maari ko sanang hinangad mamalagi sa Amerika, subalit sa aking palagay, ang maghirap kasama ang aking mga kababayan, lalo na sa panahon ng matinding pangangailangan, ay aking katungkulan, tulad ng bawat Pilipino.
Hindi ako humingi o kaya ay nabigyan ng katiyakan, o pangako ng kapatawaran ng may kapangyarihan. Malaya akong nagbabalik tangan lamang ang aking malinis na konsyensiya at pinalalakas lamang ng aking pananampalatayang sa kahuli-hulihan, magwawagi rin ang katarungan.
Nagbalik ako mula sa ibang bayan tungo sa isang di-tiyak na kinabukasan na matinding pagnanais at pananampalataya lamang ang tangan—pananampalataya sa ating mga kababayan at pananampalataya sa Panginoon.
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Talumpati: Manuel L. Quezon
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See also the category "Talumpati." And whether you found what you were looking for or not, please leave a comment below so I can help you better.Manuel L. Quezon III (MLQ3) writes about Manuel L. Quezon (MLQ), former president of the Philippines and known as the father of the national language, on the latter's birthday. MLQ3 links to a recording of "Message to My People" (mp3), which MLQ delivered in English and Spanish.
According to MLQ3, the speech was "recorded in the 1920s, when he was first diagnosed with tuberculosis and assumed he didn't have much longer to live." This speech, aside from being good for students to recite in the classroom, might be a good reminder to our current leaders in the administration and the opposition.
The text that appears below is from "Nationalism" by MLQ3 (Philippine Daily Inquirer, 19 August 2004). The translation that follows is mine.
Message to My People
Manuel L. Quezon
My fellow citizens: there is one thought I want you always to bear in mind. And that is: that you are Filipinos. That the Philippines are your country, and the only country God has given you. That you must keep it for yourselves, for your children, and for your children's children, until the world is no more. You must live for it, and die for it, if necessary.
Your country is a great country. It has a great past, and a great future. The Philippines of yesterday are consecrated by the sacrifices of lives and treasure of your patriots, martyrs, and soldiers. The Philippines of today are honored by the wholehearted devotion to its cause of unselfish and courageous statesmen. The Philippines of tomorrow will be the country of plenty, of happiness, and of freedom. A Philippines with her head raised in the midst of the West Pacific, mistress of her own destiny, holding in her hand the torch of freedom and democracy. A republic of virtuous and righteous men and women all working together for a better world than the one we have at present.
Mensahe sa Aking Mga Kababayan
Manuel L. Quezon
Mga kababayan ko: may isang kaisipang nais kong lagi niyong tatandaan. At ito ay: kayo ay Pilipino. Na ang Pilipinas ay inyong bayan, at ang tanging bayan na ibinigay ng Diyos sa inyo. Na dapat niyo itong ingatan para sa inyong mga sarili, sa inyong mga anak, at sa mga anak ng inyong anak, hanggang sa katapusan ng mundo. Kailangan niyong mabuhay para sa bayan, at kung kinakailangan, mamatay para sa bayan.If you're wondering why MLQ says, "The Philippines are..." see "The Philippines are or is?" If you have a recording or copy of a speech delivered in Filipino or Tagalog by MLQ, please leave a comment below.
Dakila ang inyong bayan. Mayroon itong dakilang nakaraan, at dakilang kinabukasan. Ang Pilipinas ng kahapon ay naging dakila dahil sa pag-aalay ng buhay at yaman ng inyong mga bayani, martir, at sundalo. Ang Pilipinas ng ngayon ay pinararangalan ng taos-pusong pagmamahal ng mga pinunong di-makasarili at may lakas ng loob. Ang Pilipinas ng bukas ay magiging bayan ng kasaganaan, ng kaligayahan, at ng kalayaan. Isang Pilipinas na nakataas ang noo sa Kanlurang Pasipiko, tangan ang sariling kapalaran, hawak sa kanyang kamay ang ilaw ng kalayaan at demokrasya. Isang republika ng mga mamamayang marangal at may paninindigan na sabay-sabay nagsisikap mapabuti ang daigdig natin ngayon.
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FO: Talumpati
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See also the category "Talumpati." And whether you found what you were looking for or not, please leave a comment below so I can help you better."Talumpati" (speech) is now the top keyword that brings searchers to this blog. It looks like many teachers are asking their students to look for speeches that they can recite in class.
Below are links to speeches in Tagalog that are available online. The speeches are not, in my opinion, appropriate for what teachers have in mind. Some were not even really delivered as speeches. But these will have to do for now.
Going forward, I hope to reprint speeches made in Tagalog—or translate those delivered in English—that will be suitable for use in the classroom. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment below.
Ako'y Si Ragam
Raha Baginda
Mula sa Malaka hanggang Maynila ay kilala ng lahat ang pangalang Nakoda Ragam na kanilang pinanganganinuhan, sa kabila ng aking pagiging maharlika.Pagkakaisa: Ang Tunay na Diwa ng EDSA
Joseph Ejercito Estrada
Kung nagsama-sama tayo noon—bata man o matanda, may-kaya o wala, Kristiyano at Muslim, bakit hindi tayo magsama-samang muli?Kung Sa Bagay
Jose F. Lacaba
Wala akong maipapangako kundi pangako. Wala akong maibibigay kundi sakit ng ulo.Speech During the 142nd Birth Anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
May diwa ng kabayanihan sa bawat isa sa atin. Kailangan lamang na isabuhay natin ito para na rin sa ating kapakanan at sa mga henerasyon pang darating.Ipagbunyi ang Ika-40 Anibersaryo ng Kabataang Makabayan
Jose Maria Sison
Sinadya nating mga tagapagtatag na piliin ang karaarawan ni Andres Bonifacio bilang araw ng pagtatatag para parangalan ang kanyang pamumuno sa lumang demokratikong rebolusyon ng 1896...
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FO: Manuel Quezon on the National Language
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Manuel L. Quezon III emailed the following after I posted "Talumpati Ni Manuel Quezon." Reprinted with permission.
Excerpt from remarks delivered by Manuel L. Quezon
San Juan de Letran Alumni Annual Banquet
Intramuros, Manila, 7 November 1937
[Updated 17 August 2009: For the Tagalog translation, see "Talumpati: Manuel L. Quezon — Wikang Pambansa."]We shall not drop English, because English can be of great help to us in so far as democratic ideas and practices are concerned. Thence we must continue Spanish and English. But I am going further; I tell you that I want neither Spanish nor English as the language of our Government. The Philippines must have a language of her own, a language based on one of the vernacular tongues...
[M]any of the difficulties or defects now existing here are due to the fact we have not a common national language of our own. The desire to imitate everything alien without knowing whether that which we are trying to imitate is good or bad, is due to an evil—to the lack of a real national soul. A national soul cannot exist where there is not a common language. We shall never have any genuine national pride until we have a language of our own. We shall always have that sign of inferiority. Copying is all right; but we must copy what is good, what is adaptable to our idiosyncrasy. And reject what is bad. I never realized how terrible the lack of a common language is until I became President. I am President of the Philippines; I am the personal representative of the Philippine nation and the Philippine people. But, when I travel through the provinces and talk to my people, I need an interpreter.
Did you ever hear of anything more humiliating, more horrible than that? I am all right when I go to the Tagalog provinces, because I can speak to the people there in the vernacular, in Tagalog. But if I go to Ilocos Sur, I am already a stranger in my own country, I, the President of the Philippines! I, a stranger in my own country! How can I tell the people what I think and feel when in order to do so I need an interpreter who, in the majority of cases, says what he wants to say and not what I have said? That happens, because sometimes the interpreter, either because he has not understood me or because he cannot think of words in the vernacular expressing what I have said, says whatever occurs to him. How often have I not said to some one interpreting for me into Visayan or Bicol: "You are not saying what I have said"?
I am agreeable to having English continued in the schools and I am going to advocate that Spanish be continued, too. But I say that the time has come for us to have a national Philippine language. Until we have that, we shall not be a people.
I remember the time when the American imperialists said: "How can you have independence when you have no common language?" I replied: "It is not necessary to have a common language. In Switzerland, Italian, French and German are spoken, and Switzerland is an independent nation." And we were all satisfied with our answer. And as those Americans were not educated in a college like that of the Dominicans, where they are so strong on the logic of Saint Augustine or Saint Thomas, they let us get away with that...
Several Filipino ladies who were traveling related to me the following incident: They were speaking English on board a ship before an American girl of about 14 years. Both were alumni of a college of the University of the Philippines. After the conversation, the American girl asked them this question: "Why don’t you speak in your own language?" The American girl was right. Why did they converse in English, being Filipinas? They could not use the vernacular because one was Ilocana and the other a Tagala.
...The difficulty is that the Ilocanos want Ilocano to be the national language; the Tagalogs, Tagalog; the Visayans, Visayan. And yet, those same Ilocanos who do not want Tagalog, accept English as the national language! Have you ever seen anything more inconceivable? A Filipino preferring a foreign language to a Philippine tongue? And at that only because Ilocano is not the tongue which has been made the national language! What I have said of Ilocano I also say of Tagalog, Pampango, Visayan, Bicol, etc.
I am a Tagalog. If the men familiar with the advantages of the several Philippine tongues were to tell me that the vernacular tongue we must adopt is Mangyan, I would be for Mangyan than for any other tongue. You know that I do not speak Spanish well; but I have spoken it from my infancy, the same as Tagalog... Tagalog is the official language in my family. But I am ready to learn Ilocano, Visayan or any other vernacular tongue so long as we shall have a language that can be spoken by all....
Do you know, I often ask myself: What shall we do when the Americans are gone, when the stimulus to be united no longer exists? We shall have strife, such as that which existed when we were students here in Letran and when the Tagalogs used to fight with the Ilocanos, the Pampangos with Visayans, the Visayans with the Tagalogs, etc. I have seen that here, and not so long ago, either. I am not old yet, and I have seen the fights we had here. The language is going to save us because no one will remember that he is Tagalog, Visayan, Ilocano, Pampango, Bicol, etc. They will all forget that difference.
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FO: Talumpati Ni Manuel Quezon
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See also the category "Talumpati." And whether you found what you were looking for or not, please leave a comment below so I can help you better.August is Buwan ng Wika (Language Month).
One of the most common search terms that lead readers to this blog is "talumpati ni manuel quezon," so I will try to go beyond the little that I wrote in "Manuel Quezon and the National Language" by linking to speeches delivered by Manuel L. Quezon while he was a resident commissioner in the US Congress from 1909-1917:
[Updated 17 August 2009: For speeches in Tagalog, see "Manuel L. Quezon — Wikang Pambansa" and "Manuel L. Quezon."]
Philippine Independence (2 March 1911)
Quezon reads a letter from the Nacionalista Party addressed to the Secretary of War, and comments on foreign ownership of Philippine land:To-day no one who is in any way familiar with the events in the Islands could fail to realize that the independence of their country is the most fervent and sacred desire of the whole Filipino people. I am betraying no secret when I assert here that the unanimous opposition of the Filipino people to the sale of their public or of the so-called friar lands to American capitalists is mainly the result of their fear that said course will in the end defeat their cherished national ambition.
The Filipino People Ask Justice (13 February 1913)You may also wish to read Future of the Philippines by Edward Price Bell (1925), which features an interview where Quezon states his belief that Japan is "nonagressive." In answer to the question, "It is better for the Philippines to be ill-governed by the Filipinos than well-governed by the Americans?" Quezon says, "By the Americans or any other non-Filipinos."
The credibility of two representatives opposed to granting independence to the Philippines is demolished by Quezon, who notes that one has never been there while the other stayed only for a month. In addition, he says,...you may read the history of a country and learn it by heart. You may know its statistics; the extent of the population; what proportion of its people can read and write, and how many can speak this, that, or the other language; how much they sell and produce; but to know the people, their characteristics, capabilities, and shortcomings, is not necessarily to know their numbers, their literacy, or their internal or foreign trade. To know a people you must not only live with them for a number of years, but share their feelings, possess a sympathy for their aspirations, and, most important of all, be broad minded enough to abandon race prejudice and fixed views on the superiority of one civilization over another.Discursos (26 September-14 October 1914)
It's in Spanish, so there's not really much I can say except that it looks like it's a series of speeches for the Philippine Assembly regarding the Jones Law.
[Note: All the documents cited above may be viewed as images or text—or downloaded as pdf files—by going to the site's toolbar and choosing the desired "Format." The same toolbar also allows navigation by "Page no.," magnification of "Page size" and searching via "Search this text.]
Finally, there's Manuel L. Quezon III's page devoted to his grandfather, which includes Quezon's autobiography. Sadly, while the link to the "Quezon speech on the national language" works, the page doesn't deliver on the title's promise.
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Manuel Quezon and the National Language
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See also the category "Talumpati." And whether you found what you were looking for or not, please leave a comment below so I can help you better.Today is the birthday of Manuel L. Quezon (1878-1944), former president of the Philippines (1935-1944) and considered "father" of Filipino as the national language of the Philippines. For more information and links, see the post of Manuel L. Quezon III today. (Note: What you need is toward the end.)
It used to be that August 13-19 was National Language Week, but in 1997, the entire month of August was declared National Language Month by then-president Fidel V. Ramos. For more on the development of Filipino as the national language of the Philippines—including relevant laws and legislation—please see the speech delivered by Jimmy Lopez on 9 August 2004. (Note: The link leads to an article published in Manila Bulletin [24 August 2004] that can only be accessed at this time through Google's cache.)
Filipino Translation
Ngayon ang kaarawan ni Manuel L. Quezon (1878-1944), dating pangulo ng Pilipinas (1935-1944) at kinikilalang "tatay" ng Filipino bilang pambansang wika ng Pilipinas. Para sa karagdagang kaalaman at babasahin, pakikonsulta ang sinulat ni Manuel L. Quezon III ngayong araw. (Paalala: Nasa bandang dulo ang kailangan niyo.)
Noong una, ipinagdiriwang lamang ang Linggo ng Wika tuwing ika-13 hanggang ika-19 ng Agosto, pero noong 1997, idineklara ni dating-pangulong Fidel V. Ramos ang buong buwan ng Agosto bilang Buwan ng Wika. Para sa karagdagang kaalaman tungkol sa pagsulong ng Filipino bilang pambansang wika ng Pilipinas—kasama na ang mga batas na ipinasa ukol dito—pakibasa ang talumpati ni Jimmy Lopez noong ika-9 ng Agosto 2004. (Paalala: Ang talumpati ay inilathala sa Manila Bulletin [24 August 2004] pero maaari lamang itong basahin sa kasalukuyan sa pamamagitan ng cache ng Google.)
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