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Remembering our humanitarian legacy with ‘Safe Haven: Jewish Refugees in the Philippines’Remembering our humanitarian legacy with ‘Safe Haven: Jewish Refugees in the Philippines’

As we all know that the words and the love of President Quezon to his countrymen would always been astonishing and overwhelming momentum.♥️

His words dragged us of what is the aspects and did truly happen in this country.

Here’s what he says;

“I am terribly disappointed tonight. Several months ago the President of the Civil Liberties Union paid me a call and asked me to be the guest of honor at an interuniversity oratorical contest which that association was sponsoring. I declined the honor, but told him nevertheless that I might still change my mind and take advantage of the privilege of the invitation. Not so very long ago, news reached me regarding this oratorical contest. I was informed that every oration would be a devastating criticism of my administration. So I sent for Mr. Tañada, the President of the League, and after reminding him of his invitation, told him that it would please me to address you tonight. I am still waiting for that devastating criticism, hence my disappointment.”

“To have had the opportunity of listening to these magnificent orations. I mean it. And I am even feeling proud because some of the best speeches tonight, I dare say, are the fruits of my own labor. I have been, long before I was elected President of the Commonwealth, listening to speeches of university students in oratorical contests. But this is the first time that I have listened to a speech advocating the rights of the Filipino.”