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My struggle today is but my continuing contribution to the faithful struggle of generations of Filipinos who, like your own heroes, laid down their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor at the altar of freedom. It is also may offering to the future vigilance of generations to come.
— Eva Estrada Kalaw
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Notes from Wikiquote p. 222
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