"It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep."
-Corazon Aquino
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"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.“
-Corazon Aquino
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