After reading the article “Scholars divided on Jose Rizal’s true love” (Inquirer ... Following Balagtas’ poetic words in which I quote: “O, pag-ibig na makapangyarihan, hahamakin ang lahat masunod ka ...

This was the famous quote of our national hero Jose Rizal in his poem A La Juventud Filipina (To the Filipino Youth), which he wrote in 1879 when he was an 18-year-old student at the University of ...