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21 " [Of the Bagos:] Like the Moros in the south, they are our brothers. We must recognize their belongingness to Filipinas, their willingness to fight for her.-The Cripple "
― F. Sionil José , Dusk (Rosales Saga, #1)
22 " But all men die--as anonymously as they had lived, no matter what their achievements.-Istak "
23 " Why do people betray their brothers and eventually themselves?-The Cripple "
24 " How many funerals had he attended, how many open graves had he seen, watched the coffins eased down, or sometimes just a frayed mat in which the corpse was bundled, the feet sticking out, the soles white and sometimes still specked with dirt if he was a farmer and could not afford slippers, least of all shoes.-Istak "
25 " None will thank me for this, nor anyone will remember.-Istak "
26 " Conquest by force is not sanctioned by God. The Americans have no right to be here. We will defeat them because we believe that this land they usurp is ours; God created it for us. The whole history of mankind has shown how faith endures while steel rusts.-Istak "
27 " It is what one really owns in the end, a name."-Istak "
28 " How can we build trust among our own people? How can we make them confident of themselves and their countrymen so that they will not sell their souls for a few silver dollars?-The Cripple "
29 " Are You, then the God of white people, and if we who are brown worship You, do we receive Your blessings as white men do? "
30 " I pray that You be not white, that You be without color and that You be in all men because goodness cannot be encased only in white. "
31 " I knew long ago that their blood is the same as mine. No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me. "
32 " The bravest are usually those whom we do not know or hear about, those anonymous men who dig the trenches, who produce the food. They are the corpus—you understand that word—the body and also the soul of a nation. Eustaquio, my words are just words, but all through history—and you have studied it—it has always been the most faceless men, those foot soldiers, who have suffered most, who have died. It is they who make a nation. "
33 " A nation which has people who can think, that nation already has strength. It is the mind which rules, Eustaquio -- not instinct or habit. "
34 " Virtue and wealth sometimes go together. "
35 " The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men. "