Jose Rizal Affiliations
Jose Rizal Affiliations
Jose Rizal Affiliations
"Hindi ko dapat subukan mabuhay sa mga kahibangan at kasinungalingan. Ang mga pinaniniwalaan
ko ngayon ay pinaniniwalaan ko sa katuwiran, at iyon ay dahil sa hindi kayang tanggapin ng aking
budhi ang hindi sang-ayon sa katuwiran.
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Naniniwala ako na hindi ako paparusahan ng Diyos kung sa paglapit ko sa kanya ay gagamit ako ng
katuwiran at talino, mga mahahalagang regalo Niya."
Spain did not hear the demands of Jose Rizal and the
Propaganda Movement because the empire was embroiled in
many other conflicts in its many colonies around the world.
• An attempt was made to reestablish the Liga Filipina, but the national
movement had become split between ilustrado advocates of reform and
peaceful evolution (the compromisarios, or compromisers) and a
plebeian constituency that wanted revolution and national independence.
Because the Spanish refused to allow genuine reform, the initiative
quickly passed from the former group to the latter.
La Liga Filipina
Jose Rizal's letter to Ferdinand Blumentritt from Geneva on June 19,1887, his 26th
‘I assure you that I have no desire to take part in conspiracies which seem to me very
premature and risky. But if the government drives us to the brink, that is to say, when no
other hope remains but seek our destruction in war, when the Filipinos would prefer to
die rather than endure their misery any longer, then I will also become a partisan of
Was Rizal just a reformist?
UP Professor Floro Quibuyen also think Rizal wanted absolute control of the archipelago
after reading the constitution of La Liga Filipina. Ayon kay Xiao Chua:
“Ngunit ayon kay Floro Quibuyen sa kanyang aklat na A Nation Aborted, makikita na
nais magtatag ng nagsasariling bansa si Rizal sa unang punto ng kanyang saligang batas:
“Magkaisa ang buong kapuluan upang maging isang katawan.” Malamang, hindi ito
samahan na magtatag ng isa pang samahan. Ang isang katawan na bubuuuin dito
siyempre ay ang bansa! Anong klaseng bansa? Ayon na rin sa saligang batas ng Liga,
THANK YOU!