While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Meaning of the quote
Your language is like a flag that shows you are free. When people keep using their own language, they are telling the world that they are independent and can make their own choices.
About Jose Rizal
Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realondawas a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered a national heroof the Philippines.
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