The Board of Trustees welcomes Gyalo Thondup, the brother of the DALAI LAMA whom His Holiness has deputed to receive this Award on his behalf. 

With his proclamation at the age of five as the Fourteenth Incarnation of the Patron God of Tibet, the DALAI LAMA was destined to become the spiritual and temporal leader of his people. Since then, his life has been singularly devoted to study and training for that responsibility. 

The society of his land was feudal, dominated by conservative monastic orders and hereditary nobles. Sometimes known as the Forbidden Kingdom, it firmly stayed aloof on its “roof of the world” and sought to remain utterly free from foreign influence. 

Despite this restrictive tradition, the DALAI LAMA showed a keen curiosity about the outside world. It was his hope to introduce better methods of farming and irrigation, to build systems of education and public health and bring other benefits of modern science to his people. He also desired radical changes in land tenure, but said such reforms “must conform with the dignity, needs and peculiar conditions of my own people.” 

Buddhism, one of the world’s great religions, has been at the heart of the Tibetan way of life. The monasteries were the conservers of learning and fully 100,000 Tibetans were monks. Now this isolated land’s Reformed Lamaism and the distinctive social system it has infused are threatened with destruction. The Tibetan people have shown their protest by a general uprising. 

Striving to retain his people’s right to live and worship in their own way, the DALAI LAMA has brought his appeal to men of conscience everywhere. Like the late Ramon Magsaysay, he chose to stand where others have faltered in the protection of fundamental human rights. 

In electing His Holiness, the DALAI LAMA to receive the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, the Board of Trustees recognizes his leadership of the Tibetan community’s gallant struggle in defense of the sacred religion that is the inspiration of their life and culture.

I have read with great interest of the splendid achievements of the people of the Philippines since they attained their independence and assumed their rightful place in the community of nations. I have heard a great deal about the glory of this ancient land of culture and tradition and the loving kindness of its people. It was, therefore, with feelings of pride and pleasure that I accepted the Award which you have elected to confer on me. 

I welcome this great honor not only because the Award is associated with the name of one of your illustrious leaders but also because I feel that it affords unmistakable evidence of your interest in the welfare of my people. I have no doubt that the people of Tibet, confronted by this dark hour of despair and distress, can depend on your sympathy and support in their grim struggle for peace and freedom. I would have gladly taken this opportunity to pay a visit to your great country but unfortunately sad and tragic circumstances prevent me from doing so. However, I cherish the hope that one day in the near future I shall be able to fulfill this desire. 

I offer you my sincerest thanks for the great honor you have done me and pray that the Enlightened One may endow you and your country with long years of peace and progress. 

May God’s blessing be on you all.

The name of CHINTAMAN DWARKANATH DESHMUKH has come to be synonymous in India with integrity in government service. His distinguished career began at the age of 24 as a member of the Indian CiviI Service. It was as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, his country’s premier financial institution, that he became well known as an independent-minded stabilizing force. He introduced basic reforms, instituted the salutary practice of giving annually a complete picture of the national economy, and also played a prominent role in international finance as India’s delegate to a series of monetary conferences. 

Shri DESHMUKH’s greatest test came with his appointment in 1950 as Union Finance Minister. Now in politics, he continued to express his opinions frankly and honestly irrespective of whether such advice might adversely affect his political future. In this position during the expansive period of the First Five-Year Plan, he was again a steadying influence and succeeded in maintaining strict financial control over expenditures of public funds. 

When he resigned in 1956 over a difference of opinion on policy, he retained the confidence of both Government and the Congress Party and became Chairman of the University Grants Commission, responsible for coordinating and maintaining standards of teaching and education in universities throughout India. The quality of scholarly competence and sound reason that he has brought to this work is being felt in the universities. 

Adhering personally to Spartan discipline and holding sensitive posts at a critical time in India’s development, he has set, by his example, a standard to follow. 

In electing CHINTAMAN DWARKANATH DESHMUKH to receive the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service, the Board of Trustees recognizes his exemplary performance in the service of his government. As our late President regarded government office as a public trust, so has this ideal characterized the careers of the one in India.

As one henceforward admitted in a special way to the fellowship of service for Asians I feel highly privileged to have this public opportunity to pay my humble tribute to the great man whose memory the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation seeks to perpetuate. 

Each country has its own fountain sources of inspiration for those who work in some sector of public life, but the preoccupations of a complex and crowded modern life afford only rare opportunities for reinforcing the local guidance and widening the horizons of service for one’s fellow-beings. 

It is, therefore, with a sense of humility and gratitude that I greet this opportunity vouch-safed to me by Providence of deriving strength and stimulation from the example of the noble life and mission of Ramon Magsaysay. We of Asia have tasks ahead that will demand the best that each one of us can give for the common good, and recognition, as by this Award, is only a reminder of the immensity of that task, of the cooperative efforts of associates and colleagues that have contributed to what little one has been able to achieve, and a spur to further efforts towards the high goal of the enhanced welfare of the millions of Asia.

Eleven years ago EDWARD MICHAEL LAW YONE founded The Nation of Rangoon. Since then, under his guidance, it has steadily grown in stature to become the leading English-language paper in his country. Rejecting sensationalism and fanaticism, The Nation has presented to the Burmese people a consistently fair and comprehensive report of events that most immediately affect their welfare. 

In promoting clean government, LAW YONE has on numerous occasions clashed with officialdom, but he has stood firm even under prosecution. Through his reasoned editorials he has helped to bring about reforms that have promoted the progress of his country. Notable among contributions to his profession in Burma has been his active participation in a School of Journalism he helped found in order to raise the standards of press reporting. 

TARZIE VITTACHI has also wielded a potent pen in the public interest in his country. As editor of the Ceylon Observer, he has called to public attention abuses in government and supported those who deserved the public trust. With his recent book, Emergency ’58, Mr. VITTACHI has given his people and the world a vivid documentary of the 1958 communal riots in Ceylon. This book was written when the conflict was still smoldering and before the truth could be obscured or glossed over. 

Himself a Sinhalese, he has subjected the role of Sinhalese and Tamil to equal unsparing scrutiny. He has likewise chronicled the manipulations of politicians who are exploiting old divisions to their advantage and who were ultimately responsible for the wave of violence that swept over Ceylon. 

Emergency ’58 appeals to all elements of Ceylonese society, particularly the leaders of the diverse groups, for a more rational attitude toward old differences and new insecurities. Though addressed chiefly to the Ceylonese, the book bears a wider implication for similar problems plague other newly-independent people in our part of the world. 

These two editors, like Ramon Magsaysay, have had the courage of their convictions. Setting personal security aside, they have worked, the one in Burma and the other in Ceylon, to build nations where man could live with man in honor and peace. 

In electing EDWARD MICHAEL LAW YONE and TARZIE VITTACHI to share the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism and Literature, the Board of Trustees recognizes their defense of civil rights and press freedom and their able stewardship of the power of the press which they have discharged with a sense of responsibility in keeping with the highest traditions of journalism.

My citation, which you have heard, is extremely complimentary, but honesty compels me to say that I feel I do not deserve it. We in this profession of journalism, which is among the lowest paid in Asia, generally enter with a sense of public duty or some such high ideal. But very soon in our career we tend to become dissatisfied, disgruntled and dispirited. The men and institutions in which we place our trust, even the whole community, sometimes desert their high principles, so that with the disclosure of every broken pledge, of every act of folly, madness or sheer criminality on their part, we are apt to become hard and cynical to the point where we at times wonder whether there is any use in going on. 

Fortunately for our sanity, there appears, at infrequent intervals, out of the mass of ineptitude, neglect and corruption, a new personality who by his example and accomplishments reveals a greatness of spirit. In our day and age, against the backdrop of maharajas, sultans, prime ministers, kings and emperors, fading into ignorant oblivion “against the backdrop of these failures” there appears clear and life-sized a man whose private life bears close scrutiny and whose public actions give encouragement and inspiration?a man who leaves footprints on the sands of time. 

Such a man was Ramon Magsaysay, your late President. If he could be with us today, I am sure he would be pleased to find that a country called Burma, not too different from his own in climate and geography, in leadership and in objectives, has been cited in not one but two of this year’s Awards. For this signal honor, I am deeply grateful.

TEE TEE LUCE has given abandoned and wayward boys off the streets of Rangoon not merely a roof and food but what they missed and needed most—a home and a share of her heart. 

Alarmed by the incidence of crime in her country, she spent a year studying and coming to know the deserted children who were its breeding ground. Other civic-spirited citizens joined with her in forming a Children’s Aid and Protection Society and helped plan and finance a home. On September 1, 1928, they offered a group of street boys a place to live and study and with 19 volunteers the Home for Waifs and Strays was launched. 

From that time, except through the war years, Daw TEE TEE, has carried on with singleness of purpose the mission of the Home she founded. There have been runaways and other failures, but for most the Home has been a haven and an opportunity to lead a decent life. Now caring for as many as 130 boys, she has provided formal schooling, physical education and training in useful crafts and introduced these boys from the meanest walks of life to classics of music and literature. Above all, she has been their “mother.” 

An active partner in her enterprise has been her husband, Professor Gordon H. Luce, himself held in affection and high regard by the people of his adopted country for his scholarship on Burma’s history and for many contributions over 47 years as teacher and unfailing friend. Though others have given generous assistance, often the two of them have had to strain their resources to keep the Home for their boys in operation. It is a fitting coincidence that she should receive this Award on the eve of its thirtieth anniversary. 

JOAQUIN VILALLONGA dedicated himself to a life of service when he entered the Society of Jesus in 1885 at the age of 17. He has been closely associated with the development of our Philippine nation since he was first assigned to teach at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila 67 years ago. Later, he became Rector of that fine institution, where many of our leaders have been trained, and served in other senior posts of his Order in our Islands. His example of discipline, erudition and simplicity and his abiding faith in man’s humanity to man have been an inspiration to generations of Filipinos. 

Twelve years ago, after he had held other high administrative positions of his Order in Spain, India and the Far East, he asked to come back to our country to serve the lepers at Culion. Today, at 92, he still ministers to their spiritual needs. A Chaplain extraordinary, Father VILALLONGA has shared the wisdom of his experience and the warmth of his understanding with those men, women and children who live in the banishment of a dread disease society has not yet learned to accept in its midst. 

Father JOAQUIN VILALLONGA and Daw TEE TEE LUCE, caring as did Ramon Magsaysay for all people as individuals and believing in their dignity and importance, have sought to improve the lot of the unfortunate and have approached the task with selfless devotion. 

In electing them to share the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, the Board of Trustees recognizes their compassionate concern for others whom society had cast aside. 

Humanitarians, both, they exemplify the ideal of service embodied in the doctrine of many faiths and expressed by the Founder of the Christian faith in this way: “Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.”

I am greatly honored to receive the Award, together with Reverend Father JOAQUIN VILALLONGA, S.J., for Public Service. Please kindly accept my heartfelt gratitude. 

I feel very unhappy to be unable to accept your kind invitation to come to Manila. I myself am not quite fit, my husband is away and two members of my staff are down with bad attacks of flu and are weak and miserable. Now many boys are having high temperatures, one after another. Besides, I have several difficult boys in the Home and I must be here. Please kindly forgive me. 

U LAW YONE knows the Home very well. I have requested him to represent me at the ceremonies.

Eleven years ago EDWARD MICHAEL LAW YONE founded The Nation of Rangoon. Since then, under his guidance, it has steadily grown in stature to become the leading English-language paper in his country. Rejecting sensationalism and fanaticism, The Nation has presented to the Burmese people a consistently fair and comprehensive report of events that most immediately affect their welfare. 

In promoting clean government, LAW YONE has on numerous occasions clashed with officialdom, but he has stood firm even under prosecution. Through his reasoned editorials he has helped to bring about reforms that have promoted the progress of his country. Notable among contributions to his profession in Burma has been his active participation in a School of Journalism he helped found in order to raise the standards of press reporting. 

TARZIE VITTACHI has also wielded a potent pen in the public interest in his country. As editor of the Ceylon Observer, he has called to public attention abuses in government and supported those who deserved the public trust. 

With his recent book, Emergency ’58, Mr. VITTACHI has given his people and the world a vivid documentary of the 1958 communal riots in Ceylon. This book was written when the conflict was still smoldering and before the truth could be obscured or glossed over. Himself a Sinhalese, he has subjected the role of Sinhalese and Tamil to equal unsparing scrutiny. He has likewise chronicled the manipulations of politicians who are exploiting old divisions to their advantage and who were ultimately responsible for the wave of violence that swept over Ceylon. 

Emergency ’58 appeals to all elements of Ceylonese society, particularly the leaders of the diverse groups, for a more rational attitude toward old differences and new insecurities. Though addressed chiefly to the Ceylonese, the book bears a wider implication for similar problems plague other newly-independent people in our part of the world. 

These two editors, like Ramon Magsaysay, have had the courage of their convictions. Setting personal security aside, they have worked, the one in Burma and the other in Ceylon, to build nations where man could live with man in honor and peace. 

In electing EDWARD MICHAEL LAW YONE and TARZIE VITTACHI to share the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism and Literature, the Board of Trustees recognizes their defense of civil rights and press freedom and their able stewardship of the power of the press which they have discharged with a sense of responsibility in keeping with the highest traditions of journalism.

I am very deeply conscious of the honor and privilege of having been selected to receive one of the Awards commemorating the life work of one of the most dedicated and well-beloved statesmen of the 20th century. I accept this recognition with due awareness of the distinction it confers upon me, leavened by my consciousness of my own shortcomings in the profession in which I belong. 

The response within me to the honor you have bestowed upon me is not one of satisfaction that something has been achieved, nor that some talent and skill I may have shown as a newspaperman and writer has been adequately rewarded, but one of humility and awe at the dimensions of the responsibility it implies for the future. It means to me that whatever I do as a journalist and writer in the future, whatever the mistakes I may have made in the past, will have to reflect, in such measure as I am capable of, that vitality, reliability and inspired leadership that Ramon Magsaysay symbolized in his life. 

The life of a journalist is not the romantic crusade that the script writers have made it out to be. The life of a journalist who comments on political affairs, as I do, is particularly perilous. But these perils are not usually of the kind that make heroes out of cub reporters or elevate painstaking and studious columnists and editors into glamorous buccaneers ready to draw their pens from their scabbards at the drop of a ballot. A journalist, a good one, might win a hundred readers overnight and lose two friends. He may lose the hundred readers a week later but he may never win back his friends. But there are greater perils than this and much nearer home. 

A newspaperman can lose his sense of proportion and perspective under the weight of political pressure or he can sacrifice forever his sense of human justice towards people of other races, religions and pigmentation, under the querulous demands of commercial or political expediency. A newspaperman, however fine and strong his nature may be, runs the terrible risk of losing his sense of human participation. He can easily lose that feeling that nothing human is alien to him. When this happens what is there left? Only the empty husk of a man. He becomes the kind of man who is hardboiled and blas, about other peoples’ tragedies and bitter about his own. He becomes cynical about human virtues as well as human weaknesses. 

In Asia we cannot afford the luxury of such sterile cynicism. Newspapermen have often to stand up against popular fervor when it is misdirected and agitated beyond the limits of law and order and fundamental human decency. He cannot sit back and merely record the passing parade indifferently. More than ever before, our tasks, our needs and our urgency are the same. We are involved in the possible growth or degradation of Asia. Let us hope that we will be given the strength to bear intelligently and honorably this involvement in the life of the people of which we are an articulate segment.

JOSE VASQUEZ AGUILAR, believing inspiration may come from the leaders but the force that makes a nation strong and free must come from the people themselves, has pioneered in making the education offered through our public schools come alive for the “forgotten masses.” From the year he first taught in the one-teacher school of his home barrio, as only an intermediate school graduate, he has devoted his energies to this work. 

His first successful trial in 1938, using the public schools to persuade a community of Capiz to plant two rice crops instead of one, encouraged him to test his theories on a wider scale when he became Division Superintendent of Public Schools in Iloilo. There he developed his community school concept. An integral part of his Iloilo experiment was the use of the vernacular as the medium of instruction in the first primary grades, as a natural and firm link between the schools and the people. The Bureau of Public Schools supported his effort. Other superintendents adopted some of his methods and evolved new ones of their own and, subsequently, the Bureau incorporated the community school scheme and the use of the vernacular in its national program. 

While in Iloilo, he was the first superintendent to take the initiative of requesting an evaluation of his school system, indicating the progressive spirit of the teachers and his own high sense of educational leadership. He had the courage to depart from established practices and then to have his work put to the test. 

The name of CHINTAMAN DWARKANATH DESHMUKH has come to be synonymous in India with integrity in government service. His distinguished career began at the age of 24 as a member of the Indian CiviI Service. It was as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, his country’s premier financial institution, that he became well known as an independent-minded stabilizing force. He introduced basic reforms, instituted the salutary practice of giving annually a complete picture of the national economy, and also played a prominent role in international finance as India’s delegate to a series of monetary conferences. 

Shri DESHMUKH’s greatest test came with his appointment in 1950 as Union Finance Minister. Now in politics, he continued to express his opinions frankly and honestly irrespective of whether such advice might adversely affect his political future. In this position during the expansive period of the First Five-Year Plan, he was again a steadying influence and succeeded in maintaining strict financial control over expenditures of public funds. 

When he resigned in 1956 over a difference of opinion on policy, he retained the confidence of both Government and the Congress Party and became Chairman of the University Grants Commission, responsible for coordinating and maintaining standards of teaching and education in universities throughout India. The quality of scholarly competence and sound reason that he has brought to this work is being felt in the universities. 

Adhering personally to Spartan discipline and holding sensitive posts at a critical time in India’s development, he has set, by his example, a standard to follow. In the tradition of Ramon Magsaysay, who, in the realm of public policy, initiated bold and untried measures, Dr. AGUILAR has been a farsighted innovator. And as a dedicated educator he has set a standard to emulate. 

In electing CHINTAMAN DWARKANATH DESHMUKH and JOSE VASQUEZ AGUILAR, to share the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service, the Board of Trustees recognizes their exemplary performance in the service of their respective governments. As our late President regarded government office as a public trust, so has this ideal characterized the careers of the one in India and the other in the Philippines.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award, which it has been my honor to receive, is testimony to the common man’s potential to find himself in our democratic society. In the Philippines and in Asia generally, the common man is legion. If he stands a little taller today, it is because of the magic of man’s love for his fellow. This is exemplified by the labor of the man whose name graces this Foundation and by the humanitarianism that makes the perpetuation of his labor possible. For the recognition of my humble contribution to the task, I feel deeply grateful. 

Our educational search for the common man’s mainsprings of action has led us to believe that he harbors great hopes. He has hopes for the improvement of himself and his family. He realizes, perhaps obscurely, that the well-being of his family is entwined with the fortunes of the larger society. These hopes make him strategically able to work toward greater achievement, if society provides the incentives. 

Fortunately, incentives in the form of legislation, financial credit, patterns of social organization, and the like tend not only to lift him but also to benefit upper income groups. Our evidence would indicate that in education this is so. Both motivation and purpose operate to lay the foundations of education in the context of the peoples? culture. We might even say that this context is to be discovered in the culture of the community. That is the starting point. From that point on, it is an educational adventure in which change in the individual and in the community marks progress from guidepost to guidepost. Subsequently, society will be the beneficiary of well-circumstanced or gifted individuals for their contributions in various fields of human endeavor. 

It is my belief that this thought, conceived in terms of education, has its counterpart in political action to which, sooner or later, currents of thought converge. The ground swells emerging from the sufferings of war had to be interpreted, and education developed the community-school idea to meet the new situation. Other social factors, on the basis of their own purposes, also played their part. Together, they resulted in the demand that some leader translates these crosscurrents into political action, or social explosion would inevitably follow. 

The evolutionary process inherent in our democratic institutions is a guarantee of security in which the individual and his family may hope to labor for prosperity. If we hold as a tenet that the individual has worth and dignity, the evolutionary process cannot be eschewed, nor the democratic framework in which it operates. 

Perhaps it may be said that man possesses internal compulsions that lead him to raise his sights in our social scheme. These compulsions continuously need to be discovered. It is my thought that the Ramon Magsaysay Award, of which I am a recipient this year for government service, underscores this basic assumption in education. For this Award, I wish to express my grateful appreciation.

JOAQUIN VILALLONGA dedicated himself to a life of service when he entered the Society of Jesus in 1885 at the age of 17. He has been closely associated with the development of our Philippine nation since he was first assigned to teach at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila 67 years ago. Later, he became Rector of that fine institution, where many of our leaders have been trained, and served in other senior posts of his Order in our Islands. His example of discipline, erudition and simplicity and his abiding faith in man’s humanity to man have been an inspiration to generations of Filipinos. 

Twelve years ago, after he had held other high administrative positions of his Order in Spain, India and the Far East, he asked to come back to our country to serve the lepers at Culion. Today, at 92, he still ministers to their spiritual needs. A Chaplain extraordinary, Father VILALLONGA has shared the wisdom of his experience and the warmth of his understanding with those men, women and children who live in the banishment of a dread disease society has not yet learned to accept in its midst. 

TEE TEE LUCE has given abandoned and wayward boys off the streets of Rangoon not merely a roof and food but what they missed and needed most—a home and a share of her heart. 

Alarmed by the incidence of crime in her country, she spent a year studying and coming to know the deserted children who were its breeding ground. Other civic-spirited citizens joined with her in forming a Children’s Aid and Protection Society and helped plan and finance a home. On September 1, 1928, they offered a group of street boys a place to live and study and with 19 volunteers the Home for Waifs and Strays was launched. 

From that time, except through the war years, Daw TEE TEE, has carried on with singleness of purpose the mission of the Home she founded. There have been runaways and other failures, but for most the Home has been a haven and an opportunity to lead a decent life. Now caring for as many as 130 boys, she has provided formal schooling, physical education and training in useful crafts and introduced these boys from the meanest walks of life to classics of music and literature. Above all, she has been their “mother.” 

An active partner in her enterprise has been her husband, Professor Gordon H. Luce, himself held in affection and high regard by the people of his adopted country for his scholarship on Burma’s history and for many contributions over 47 years as teacher and unfailing friend. Though others have given generous assistance, often the two of them have had to strain their resources to keep the Home for their boys in operation. It is a fitting coincidence that she should receive this Award on the eve of its thirtieth anniversary. 

Father JOAQUIN VILALLONGA and Daw TEE TEE LUCE, caring as did Ramon Magsaysay for all people as individuals and believing in their dignity and importance, have sought to improve the lot of the unfortunate and have approached the task with selfless devotion. 

In electing them to share the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, the Board of Trustees recognizes their compassionate concern for others whom society had cast aside. 

Humanitarians, both, they exemplify the ideal of service embodied in the doctrine of many faiths and expressed by the Founder of the Christian faith in this way: “Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.”

I wish to express my most sincere thanks for the great honor conferred upon my humble person by the Board of Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation. 

Ever since the beginning of my religious life in the Society of Jesus in 1885, I have felt a strong desire to work for the people of the Philippine Archipelago, the most beautiful in the whole world. When I arrived at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1892, I felt a great enthusiasm for my Filipino pupils, their customs, their language, which is sweeter than honey, pulut-pukyutan. And I am very happy to see many of our Ateneo alumni, among them Dr. Paulino Garcia, Pedro Tuason and Teodoro Evangelista—to name but a few—among the leaders of this country today. 

Pinakamamahal kong mga kapatid: 

Malaking kasiyahan para sa akin kung nakikita ko kayong natitipon dito, upang marinig ninyo ang aking wika. Lubos akong nagagalak sa karangalang ito. Ngunit higit ang aking kasiyahan na ang ala-ala at mga dakilang gawain ng ating yumaong Pangulong Si Ramon Magsaysay ay nananatiling sariwa sa ating isipan sa pamamagitan ng Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation.

Vosotros estais enorgullecidos de ser Filipinos y nosotros los Jesuitas Espanoles, Americanos y Filipinos, estamos enorgullecidos de trabajar por el progreso espiritual y material del pueblo Filipino en nuestros colegios, observatorios y misiones. Y todos los Jesuitas desde el Muy Reverende Padre General hasta el ultimo Hermano Coadjutor que tuvieron la dicha de pisar estas benditas playas Filipinas estamos dispuestos a derramar nuestros sudores y nuestra sangre por la prosperidad del pueblo Filipino. 

Adelante pues, mis amados Filipinos, luchad por vuestra, que trajeron a estas playas los Misioneros Espanoles, capitaneados por Legaspi y Urdaneta. Luchad por vuestros hogares. Luchad por vuestros hijos, que son sangre de vuestra sangre y hueso de vuestros huesos. Luchad, en fin, por vuestra Patria Filipinas, hasta derramar la ultima gota de vuestra sangre que corre por vuestros venos. He Dicho.