American

motives
 “And now,
gentlemen, you
must have a
national hero.”
“Rizal never advocated independence,
nor did he advocate armed resistance
to the government. He urged reform
from within by publicity, by public
education, and appeal to the public
conscience.”
Rizal’s Acceptability
• He was safely dead by the time the Americans
began their aggression.
• Rizal’s became the symbol of Spanish
oppression.
• He was an illustrado.
Distorting
Rizal
Educated Citizen
“…I am one most anxious for liberties
of our country and I am still desirous
of them. But I place as a prior
condition the education of the
people, that by means of instruction
and industry our country may have
an individuality of its own and make
itself worthy of these liberties.”
Rizal intentionally avoided the term

“INDEPENDENCE”