Taksil si Rizal sa Himagsikan at Pagkabansa?Hindi dapat pambansang bayani si Rizal.

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“From the very beginning, when I first had notice of what is being planned, I opposed it, fought it, and demonstrated its absolute impossibility…

…I have written also (and I repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, and those which comes from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.

Holding these ideas. I cannot do less than condemn, and I do condemn this uprising-which dishonors us Filipinos and discredits those that could plead our cause. I abhor its criminal methods and disclaim all part in it, pitying from the bottom of my heart the unwary that have been deceived into taking part in it.”

--José Rizal, Dec. 15, 1896

Rizal’s campaign for reforms with the propaganda movement aimed for Hispanization of the Philippines and not for complete separation from Mother Spain.

--Wenceslao Emilio Retana & Austin Craig

Rizal’s first biographers

Bayani

Bakit?

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Gov. William Howard Taft

In 1901, suggested that the Philippine Commission to the Filipinos be given a national hero.

“And now, gentlemen, you must have a national hero.”

--Gov. W. H. Taft

Bakit si Rizal?

In the first place, he was safely dead by the time the American began their aggression.

Rizal’s dramatic martyrdom had already made him the symbol of Spanish oppression.

The Filipino members of the Philippine Commission were conservative ilustrados.

Rizal was not proclaimed to be the national hero but with a series of decrees.

Naming the province of Morong as Rizal

The erection of monuments in all town

plazas

A contest for the design of the national

monument at the Luneta

PambansangBayani?