Benigno "Ninoy" S. Aquino, Jr.

BENIGNO "NINOY" S. AQUINO, JR.
Statesman and Martyr
1932-1983

I will never be able to forgive myself if I will have to live with
the knowledge that I could have done something and I did not
do anything. - - Thoughts of the late Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr.

"I believe that the Filipino will respond to the call to greatness
not by coercion but by persuasion, not by intimidation but through
the ways of freedom."
- Benigno S. Aquino, Jr.

"We must not only preserve yesterday's heritage fight for today's
ephemeral interests, but die if need be, for tomorrow's hopes."
- Benigno S. Aquino, Jr.

"A time comes in a man's life when he must prefer a meaningful
death to a meaningless life."
- Benigno S. Aquino, Jr.

"The Filipino is worth dying for."
- Benigno S. Aquino, Jr.