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A massive show of ‘people power’ in the streets of Manila led to a spectacular overthrow of a dictatorship. This Hollywood-style melodrama could only have happened in the Philippines…

But something was missing, a gel to hold society together. The people at the top still had the same detached attitude to the native peasants as the mestizos in their haciendas in Latin America had toward their peons…

If only The Philippines could get their elite to share their sentiments and act, what could they not have achieved?

— Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew in his book, From Third World to First (via pepediokno)

(Source: antipinoy.com, via jaejoonged)

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