El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21 Script -

(cutting him off) Reforms are bandages on a corpse. Your “form” – the Filipino – is already dead. What walks around is a ghost. (He picks up the skull.) This was a man. He wrote petitions. He believed in justice. They killed him anyway.

Then what would you have us do? Kill? Burn? El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21 Script

No. But suffering does. For three centuries, you have been a form without substance – a Filipino face on a Spanish slave’s body. (cutting him off) Reforms are bandages on a corpse

(slams the ruby on the table) Ask? You will ask the friars? The same men who whip your countrymen and call it charity? El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21 Script