In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the same lines, of the sacrifice or selfishness of its ancestors.
Jose RizalAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: filipino
- Born: June 19, 1861
- Died: December 20, 1896
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