Name: Salido, Freda Mae B.

Section: BSCSM 1D Subject: GPH

1. What can you say about this line in the speech of Corazon Aquino: “…and so
began the revolution that has brought me to democracy’s most famous home,
the Congress of the United states? which concept is the line is important to you?
why?
- This particular statement of the late President Corazon Aquino has
permitted me to conclude that United States is whom she considered the
initiator of democracy. As to my own interpretation, this line is stated to
express honor and build relationship with the United States given the
condition that it is the most powerful country in the whole world that the
time the speech was delivered.
- “The Congress of United States as the home of democracy.” This is the
most idea of this line which for me is fundamental for it enlightens me of
the ideals of Cory Aquino about which path she wanted to take
the Philippines during her term of presidency.

2. What did Corazon Aquino mention in her speech pertaining to the aspiration of
the Filipino people? What do you feel about these lines?
- According to the speech of Corazon Aquino, the Filipinos yearn for
democracy. It was stated that despite the situation her people
are in: poverty and massive unemployment for the past 14 years,
they still offered their lives for the abstraction of democracy. Some specific
lines that prove the aspirations of Filipino people are as follow: “Wherever
I went in the campaign, slum area or impoverished village, they came to
me with one cry: Democracy! Not food, although they clearly needed it,
but democracy; not work, although they surely wanted it, but democracy.
Not money, for they gave what little they had to my campaign. “Based on
the statements said by the former President Corazon Aquino, I feel the
sympathy for the Filipinos who claimed to have had suffered during the
dictatorship regime. As it has been said, they were willing to give the little
money that they had, despite the poverty and unemployment, just to
attain democracy and freedom. It permitted me to ask myself: What
could’ve been their sufferings that they were willing to set aside their
practical needs in exchange of democracy?
3. In the video, how many times the former President Corazon Aquino have been
applauded by the members of the US Congress? Mention the lines she said for
which she received an overwhelming applause.
- President Corazon Aquino have received a total of 12
applause during her formal speech. The following are the lines she
said for which she had been interrupted with an overwhelming applause
(If we are to include the applause she gained during
introduction, it would be a total of 13).
1. “Today, I have returned as the president of a free people.”
2. “And so began the revolution that has brought me to democracy’s most
famous home, the Congress of the United States.”
3. “That is my contract with my people and my commitment to God.”
4. “By the time he fled, that insurgency had grown to more than 16,000. I
think there is a lesson here to be learned about trying to stifle a thing with
the means by which it grows.”
5. “As President, I will not betray the cause of peace by which I came to
power.”
6. “I will not stand by and allow an insurgent leadership to spurn our offer of
peace and kill our young soldiers, and threaten our new freedom.”
7. “Yet, I must explore the path of peace to the utmost for at its end,
whatever disappointment I meet there, is the moral basis for laying down the
olive branch of peace and taking up the sword of war.”
8. “With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the rights
as God gives us to see the rights, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up
the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for
his widow and for his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just
and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
9. “I will do whatever it takes to defend the integrity and freedom of my
country.”
10.“Yet ours must have been the cheapest revolution ever.”
11. “You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many
lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won
it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.”
12.“Today, I say, join us, America, as we build a new home for democracy,
another haven for the oppressed, so it may stand as a shining testament of
our two nation’s commitment to freedom.”