If you were given the chance to write this speech with both Aquino and Locsin, what issues in 1986 would you like to address with? State your reasons.
It is now nearly six months since I spoke to you on February 3rd. How many of us really believed that deliverance was near at hand. I do not know. But it was clear that we were all terribly determined to deliver ourselves from bondage. And that was more important. The determination was even greater after Marcos stole the election from us and we embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience. At this time, a foreign emissary came to me and asked me when I thought our victory would take place. I answered him. Perhaps in three months, maybe six, who knows? All I know, I told him, is that I will not stop whatever the price I would have to pay. He told me, Mrs. Aquino, if you had given me a definite time when you would definitely take power, I would have dismissed your efforts. But now that you tell me realistically that you do not know but that, regardless, you will not stop, I know you will succeed. It is all in the will.
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It is now nearly six months since I spoke to you on February 3rd. How many of us really believed that deliverance was near at hand. I do not know. But it was clear that we were all terribly determined to deliver ourselves from bondage. And that was more important. The determination was even greater after Marcos stole the election from us and we embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience. At this time, a foreign emissary came to me and asked me when I thought our victory would take place. I answered him. Perhaps in three months, maybe six, who knows? All I know, I told him, is that I will not stop whatever the price I would have to pay. He told me, Mrs. Aquino, if you had given me a definite time when you would definitely take power, I would have dismissed your efforts. But now that you tell me realistically that you do not know but that, regardless, you will not stop, I know you will succeed. It is all in the will.