"Under what clime or what skies, has tyranny claimed a nobler victim?"
— José Rizal

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Congressman Henry Cooper of Wisconsin, at the House of Representatives on a debate whether to grant autonomy to the Philippines, and right after reciting Rizal's valedictory poem, "Mi ultimo adios" in English: before members of U.S. Congress (1902)