Studying Rizal's life is a thought-provoking in the contemporary relevance that would lead somehow to the utmost peak of change. It defines the life-sacrificed of our greatest hero as the "First Pioneer Exponent of Liberal Democracy in Asia" that challenged the world of need in the name of firmness courage ideas on liberal democracy and meaningful progress of the common people (M. J. Fisher, 1962). These ideas inlude the following:
> The worth and dignity of the individual;
> The inviolability of human rights;
> The innate equality of all men and races;
> The necessity for constitutional government;
> Due process of law;
> Popular sovereignty as the basis of all political authority;
> Faith in human reason and enlightenment;
> The rights of the masses to public education;
and
> Belief in social progress through freedom.
Even before great Gandhi, Rizal was the first to arouse the people, the Filipino masses, since he was the all in all battlecry in the midst of the battlefield and considered hero for the outbreak of the 1896 Philippine Revolution. Why not Bonifacio? Dear readers, pen is more powerful than any violence means, certainly yes. Rizal objected this plan of revolt because the Filipino masses were not ready for an armed mass revolt. But the revolution was broke out while Rizal heading plan to Cuba for his medical mission, which considered the first genuine uprising ever happened in Asia against Western colonialism.
Yet, through the lifetime social reform and liberal progress of José Rizal, in the words of many Filipinos he was the first Filipino and "First Asian Nationalist Leader."
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Flame Pillar of Rizal
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