Francisco Sionil José

Rats in the Kitchen, Carabaos in the Closet

Why We are Hungry

Taira Robles

Never, never romanticise the poor or glamourise poverty; avoid such cliché traps like, poor but virtuous, honour among the poor - because there is nothing honourable about poverty. It is totally degrading.

This patriotism, this social conscience, must now address the inequities of this nation; it must no longer be an instrument of the oligarchy to perpetuate itself.

We are destined to be free - but that destiny is not up for grabs, nor does it come easily. Often, it is denied us because we deny ourselves the free mind, fixated on attitudes of our own making, implanted in us by miseducation, by our misunderstanding of our own history.

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