Corazon Aquino Quotes

• You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

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  Tags in Freedom, Journey, Painful

• 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.

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  Tags in People, Freedom, Need, Treasure

• The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

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  Tags in Nation, Awaken

• The media’s power is frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

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  Topics in Power

  Tags in People, Support

• Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

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  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Peace, Hope, Principle

• One must be frank to be relevant.

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  Tags in Relevant, Frank

• National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Honest, Government, National

• It’s very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

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  Topics in Sad

  Tags in People, Simple, Story

• It wasn’t until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Accept, Suffering, Pity

• It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Freedom, Political

• It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

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  Topics in History

  Tags in Bedroom

• I’ve reached a point in life where it’s no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that’s good. If they don’t, that’s too bad.

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  Tags in Impress, Necessary, Good

• I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Live, Meaningful

• I know my limitations, and I don’t like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Involved, Limitations

• I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Believe, Regardless

• I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn’t have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in People, Faith, Difficult, Support

• I don’t have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It’s always the people who make things happen.

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  Tags in People, Yourself, Forget, Formula

• I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Miracles

• Freedom of expression – in particular, freedom of the press – guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government, Freedom, Popular

• Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith, Hope, Patience, Simply

Corazon Aquino (23)

Birth:	25th January, 1933
Death:	1st August, 2009
Nationality:	Filipino
Profession:	Politician

About

Corazon Aquino was born in Manila. She was a Philippine politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, the first woman to hold that office, and the first female president in Asia, though not the first female Asian head of state. She went on to the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City, where she majored in Mathematics and French. After graduating from college, she returned to the Philippines to study law at the Far Eastern University for one year. She was named Time magazine's "Woman of the Year" in 1986. She had not held any other elective office.

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