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Address of President Manuel L. Quezon on Policies and Achievements of the Government and Regeneration of the Filipino

As I have read the speech of our former President Manuel L. Quezon, he states there about the policies and achievements of the government, about the freedom and security of the Filipinos and also about the traits of Filipinos; the difference of the traits of our Filipino ancestors and the Filipino today.

"I have an abiding faith in our people. I know that they have all the faculties needed to become a powerful and enlightened nation. The Filipino is not inferior to any man of any race. His physical, intellectual, and moral qualities are as excellent as those of the proudest stock of mankind. But some of these qualities, I am constrained to admit, have become dormant in recent years. If we compare our individual and civic traits with those that adorned our forefathers, we will find, I fear, that we, the Filipinos of today, have lost much of the moral strength and power for growth of our ancestors. They were strong-willed, earnest, adventurous people. They had traditions potent in influence in their lives, individually and collectively. They had the courage to be pioneers, to brave the seas, clear the forest and erect towns and cities upon the wilderness. They led a life of toil and communal service. Each one considered himself an active part of the body politic. But those traditions are either lost or forgotten. They exist only as a hazy-mist in our distant past. We must revive them, for we need the anchorage of these traditions to guide and sustain us in the proper discharge of our political and social obligations." In this statement, former President Manuel L. Quezon describes what are the traits of the Filipino before; our ancestors; forefathers. He states that the Filipinos are strong kind of people, they never give up easily and they always face all the challenges and always take risks. They have the courage to do anything and they can stand on their own and do their responsibilities and obligations in our society. But compared to the Filipinos nowadays, they are very different. Why? because it is clearly stated in the statement of former President Manuel L. Quezon that "The Filipino of today is soft, easy-going. His tendency is towards parasitism. He is uninclined to sustained strenuous effort! He lacks earnestness. Face-saving is the dominant note in the confused symphony of his existence. His sense of righteousness is often dulled by the desire of personal gain. His norm of conduct is generally prompted by expediency rather than by principle. He shows a failing in that superb courage which impels action because it is right, even at the cost of self-sacrifice. His greatest fear is not to do wrong, but of being caught doing wrong. He is frivolous in his view of life. His conception of virtue is many times conventional. He takes his religion lightly. He thinks that lip-service and profession are equivalent to deep and abiding faith. He is inconstant; he lacks perseverance; the first obstacles baffle him, and he easily admits defeat. The patriotism of many Filipinos of today is skin-deep, incapable of inspiring heroic deeds. There are those who are apt to compromise with ethical principles and to regard truth as not incompatible with misrepresentation or self-deceit.", he mentioned there that we Filipinos of today's generation are parasitism. Parasitism means the practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism; habitual reliance on or exploitaion of other. It is like we're just always relying to others or being dependent to others, that we can't do anything for our own or can't standon our own because we are too dependent.

Some of our traditions now are forgotten and some are changed by the cultures of other races. Our former President Manuel L. Quezon wants us to be morally strong, virile, hard-working, refined, enterprising, persevering, public-spirited and to grow and be like the molave, strong and resilient, rising on the hillside, unafraid of the raging flood, the lightning or the storm, confident of sits own strength.

Filipino, we need to rise up again, we need to return back the culture, the traditions and culture and the good traits that we have before, for us to success in all aspects of life and have a better lifestyle.