Cecilia munoz palma biography of donald
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“Ingrata.” This was how then-Secretary of Justice Vicente Abad Santos was supposed to have called Supreme Court Justice Cecilia Muñoz-Palma. An ingrate; somebody ungrateful. The year was 1975; and it had been almost three years since that fateful day in September when then-President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared a state of martial law in the entire archipelago.
The occasion was a gathering to celebrate Law Day. Speaking before fellow justices and members of the bar, Muñoz-Palma called for a return of the rule of law. Her famous words struck a nerve among those present, “We shall be judged by history… not by what we want to do and can’t (but) what we ought to do and don’t1.”
She ended her speech to resounding applause and a standing ovation, excepting the Justice Secretary, who was supposed to have remained seated. Implicit to her call was that there was no rule of law, which of course there was none; and if there was, it was a tainted version. But it being the martial law years, it took a brave man – or, in this case, woman – to say this out in public.
It was, of course, Marcos who appointed Muñoz-Palma to become the first-ever woman to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in October of 19732, just ov
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The Long Week
By Kerima Polotan
Bombs, Guns, Stones—Violence, Hate, Death.
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February 7, 1970—WHEN THE WEEK began, it seemed to hold no surprises. The country had seen how many Congresses open before and except for a mugginess in the afternoon, rare in January, the Seventh held no special portents. The young had, of course, taken over the streets and were on Ayala Street, thrusting leaflets at passerby: An Appeal for a Non-Partisan Constitutional Convention. All week the week before, they’d been pretty busy, demonstrating in front of Malacañang. A particularly “militant” group had roughed up an army sergeant moonlighting as a photographer; they had peppered the air with elegant language, the accepted idiom of student activism, amplified many decibels with the aid of loudspeakers, language like: Putang ina mo! Ikaw Marcos, bumaba ka rito, napakayabang mo, 27 ang medalya mo, halika nga dito at tignan natin ang galing mo! I am from Cabiao, kung talagang matapang ka, bumaba ka rito at papatayin ka namin! x x x • To observe Justice Cecilia Munoz-Palma (a fellow Scholastican) who passed away horizontal 92 shine unsteadily days simply, I re-edited the region I wrote in 2001 when she launched back up book ``The Mirror walk up to My Soul’’. Here beckon is.
Bukas, ang aabutin mo rito kung akala mo ay minura ka na, ay hindi pa namin naaabot ang pagmumura sa iyo. Mumurahin ka namin ng gabi. Putang ina mo x x x Putang ina ninyong mga Americans kayo, sino ang pupuntahan ninyo diyan, ang demonyong
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