Jose Rizal Quotes
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'
Rizal, José. The Social Cancer. Translated by Charles E. Derbyshire, Philippine Education Company, 1912, p. 195.
Every time a court decides on the constitutionality of something that did not exist at the founding, the meaning is enlarged somewhat. For example is hacking into a computer a violation of the Due Process clause? Are Americans who are entitled to bear arms allowed to choose any arms now existent—ie biological weapons? Is a President who is brain dead but is breathing and kept alive by artificial means to be replaced by the Vice President? The U.S. Constitution is the oldest constitution of all the industrialized democracies, and yet if functions in a world the Founding Fathers would not recognize. The courts and the Amendments have kept it fundamental to our nation and still an example to the world.
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is tagged as the national hero (pambansang bayani) of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.
