This piece was written by Senator Jose Diokno and it was taken from the article, “Fighting for a Dream” of Professor Elfren Cruz in BusinessWorld dated 02/28/06.
There is one dream that all Filipinos share that our children may have a better life than we have had. So there is one vision that is distinctly Filipino, to make this country, our country, a nation for our children.
A NOBLE nation where homage is paid not to who a man is or what he owns, but to what he is or what he does.
There is one dream that all Filipinos share that our children may have a better life than we have had. So there is one vision that is distinctly Filipino, to make this country, our country, a nation for our children.
A NOBLE nation where homage is paid not to who a man is or what he owns, but to what he is or what he does.
A PROUD nation, where poverty chains no man to the plow, forces no woman to prostitute herself and condemns no child to scrounge among garbage.
A FREE nation, where men and women and children from all regions and with all kinds of talents may find truth and play and sing and dance and love without fear.
A JUST nation where whatever inequality exists is caused not by the way people act towards each other, but by differences in natural talents, where poverty, ignorance, and hunger are attacked, and every farmer has lands that no one can grab from him, every breadwinner a job that is satisfying and pays him enough to provide a decent standard of living; every family, a home from which it cannot be evicted, and everyone, a steadily improving quality of life.
An INDEPENDENT nation which rejects foreign dictation, depends on itself, thinks for itself, and decides for itself what the common good is, how it is to be attained, and how its costs and benefits can be attributed.
A HONORABLE nation where public powers are used for public good and not for private gain of some Filipinos and some foreigners, where leaders speak not only well, but truthfully and act honestly, a nation that is itself and seeks to live in peace and brotherhood with all the other nations of the world.
JOSE DIOKNO
A FREE nation, where men and women and children from all regions and with all kinds of talents may find truth and play and sing and dance and love without fear.
A JUST nation where whatever inequality exists is caused not by the way people act towards each other, but by differences in natural talents, where poverty, ignorance, and hunger are attacked, and every farmer has lands that no one can grab from him, every breadwinner a job that is satisfying and pays him enough to provide a decent standard of living; every family, a home from which it cannot be evicted, and everyone, a steadily improving quality of life.
An INDEPENDENT nation which rejects foreign dictation, depends on itself, thinks for itself, and decides for itself what the common good is, how it is to be attained, and how its costs and benefits can be attributed.
A HONORABLE nation where public powers are used for public good and not for private gain of some Filipinos and some foreigners, where leaders speak not only well, but truthfully and act honestly, a nation that is itself and seeks to live in peace and brotherhood with all the other nations of the world.
JOSE DIOKNO
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