Jose Rizal (1861 - 1896), a proponent of Filipino nationalism wrote several works with highly nationalistic and revolutionary tendencies.

To you Gat Jose Rizal, I sure do hope you are proud of me also, I know you have been guiding the young people of today.  May they see you in themselves.

In 1896 while Rizal was in prison in Fort Santiago, his brother Paciano was tortured by Spaniards trying to extract evidence of Jose's complicity in the revolution.

For Filipinos striving to “make their own history,” no tradition weighs as heavily “on the brain of living” as the legacy of Jose Rizal.

In 1896 while Rizal was in prison in Fort Santiago, his brother Paciano was tortured by Spaniards trying to extract evidence of Jose's complicity in the revolution. ... Jose Rizal Park, Seattle

1 The full text of the manifesto may be found in Jose Rizal, Political and Historical Writings. Vol VII (Manila: National Heroes Commission, 1964), p. 348.

Writer, Hero, Myth, and Spirit: The Changing Image of José Rizal ... Studying Rizal: From Course Work to Fieldwork

José Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda (19 June 1861 – 30 December 1896), known as Jose Rizal, was a Filipino polymath and nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in...

If you were Jose Rizal as a kid--say, 10 years old, snotty, sickly, sensitive, a wisp of a boy in a ... (ARTHUR MILLER, on the life and legacy of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS) View my complete profile

Exactly like Jose Rizal, our National Hero, in 1889. No wonder we can´t progress from Third World to First World, even to a Tiger Economy.;