The KKK and the “Kartilya ng

Katipunan”
By:
John Carlo L. Carpio
 The KKK

✣ Kataastaasan Kagalanggalangan Katipunan na

mga Anak ng Bayan or Katipunan is arguably the
most important organization formed in the
Philippine history.

✣ Founded by Andres Bonifacio on July 7, 1892 in a

house on Azcarraga Street (Claro M. Recto) in
Tondo, Manila.
 The Objectives of the
KKK
1. A united Filipino nation that would revolt against
the Spaniards for the total independence of the
country from Spain.

2. The moral goal was to teach filipinos good manners,

cleanliness, hygiene, fine morals, and how to guard
themselves against religious fanatism.

3. The Civic goal was to encourage filipinos to help

themselves and defend the poor oppressed.
 The Leaders of the
KKK

Deodato Arellano Teodoro Plata

Supremo Secretary

Ladislao Diwa
Fiscal
 Andres Bonifacio
Founder

Valentin Diaz Emilio Jacinto

Treasurer Author of the
Kartilya
 The Differences of KKK to
La Liga Filipina

 They demand for the freedom/independence for our

country.

 La Liga Filipina only demands for equal rights,

representation, and protection from the abuse of
friars.

 The KKK doesn’t believe to a peaceful revolution.

 The Kartilya ng Katipunan

✣ Written by Emilio Jacinto in the 1896.

✣ “Manga [sic] Aral ng mga A.N.B.” or “Lesson of the

Organization of the Sons of Country”.

✣ The Katipunan’s code of conduct.

 Ang Kartilya ng Katipunan

I. The life that is not consecrated to a lofty and reasonable

purpose is a tree without a shade, if not a poisonous weed.

II. To do good for personal gain and not for its own sake is not
virtue.

III. It is rational to be charitable and love one's fellow creature,

and to adjust one's conduct, acts and words to what is in itself
reasonable.
 Ang Kartilya ng Katipunan

IV. Whether our skin be black or white, we are all born equal:
superiority in knowledge, wealth and beauty are to be
understood, but not superiority by nature.

V. The honorable man prefers honor to personal gain; the

scoundrel, gain to honor.

VI. To the honorable man, his word is sacred.

VII. Do not waste thy time: wealth can be recovered but not time
lost.
 Ang Kartilya ng Katipunan

VIII. Defend the oppressed and fight the oppressor before the law or
in the field.

IX. The prudent man is sparing in words and faithful in keeping

secrets.

X. On the thorny path of life, man is the guide of woman and

the children, and if the guide leads to the precipice, those
whom he guides will also go there.
 Ang Kartilya ng Katipunan

XI. Thou must not look upon woman as a mere plaything, but as a
faithful companion who will share with thee the penalties of
life; her (physical) weakness will increase thy interest in her
and she will remind thee of the mother who bore thee and reared
thee.

XII.12. What thou dost not desire done unto thy wife, children,
brothers and sisters, that do not unto the wife, children,
brothers and sisters of thy neighbor.
 Ang Kartilya ng Katipunan

XIII.Man is not worth more because he is a king, because his nose is

aquiline, and his color white, not because he is a *priest, a servant of
God, nor because of the high prerogative that he enjoys upon earth,
but he is worth most who is a man of proven and real value, who does
good, keeps his words, is worthy and honest; he who does not oppress nor
consent to being oppressed, he who loves and cherishes his fatherland,
though he be born in the wilderness and know no tongue but his own.

XIV.14. When these rules of conduct shall be known to all, the longed-for
sun of Liberty shall rise brilliant over this most unhappy portion of
the globe and its rays shall diffuse everlasting joy among the
confederated brethren of the same rays, the lives of those who have
gone before, the fatigues and the well-paid sufferings will remain. If
he who desires to enter (the Katipunan) has informed himself of all
this and believes he will be able to perform what will be his duties, he
may fill out the application for admission.
“Alin pag-ibig pa ang
hihigit kaya sa pagkadalisay
at pagkadakila gaya ng pag-
ibig sa tinubuang lupa?
Aling pag-ibig pa? wala na
nga. Wala na”.

Andres Bonifacio
Nov. 30, 1863 - May 10, 1897