History

Can ordinary people change history as much as famous leaders?

For

Revolutions and movements are driven by the masses.

Against

Leaders make key decisions that shape events.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • But as history tells us, its the perfect circumstances, time, and place of various actors that creates historic turn of events.
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  • The oppressed need to believe that justice may come.
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Against

  • A lot of filipinos thinks it takes one man to change the fate of the country.
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  • Only Quezon decades later or maybe even Magsaysay, 50 years later was able to garner as much popularity as Rizal with the masses.
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