I Have A Dream For The Phillipines (pastiche)

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“I Have A Dream For the Philippines” by Nicole Calo

I am proud to be with you today in this great demonstration for freedom in our nation. This day will go down in the books as one of the greatest moments of our country’s history.

More than three centuries ago, our great Filipino ancestors, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Declaration of Philippine Independence. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Filipinos who were once slaves seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a glorious dawn, ending the long night of our slavery.

But three hundred years later, the Filipino still is not free. Three hundred years later, the life of the Filipino is still sadly crippled by the manacles of poverty and the chains of governmental corruption. Three hundred years later, the Filipino lives on a lonely island of hopelessness in the midst of a vast ocean of material wealth. Three hundred years later, the Filipino is still languished in the dusty corners of the world and finds himself a beggar in his own land. And so we've come here today to reverse our shameful condition.

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We can imagine that we've come to our nation's capital to buy back what we have pawned at the dawn of our republic’s creation. When the reigns of this country was passed from the hands of our oppressors to our forefathers, when the founders of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every Filipino was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all Filipinos would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that ...

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