by Ben Serrano
June 20, 2009
BUTUAN CITY- The Bagumbayan-Volunteers for a New Philippines today called on Filipinos to take inspiration from Dr. Jose Rizal and break the walls in our minds built by the colonial past by regaining confidence in our capabilities and being courageous about the future as our national hero did.
As the nation commemorates Rizal’s birthday yesterday June 19, Bagumbayan President Leon B. Herrera said Rizal’s short but meaningful life is an ideal model for Filipinos which shows that a person can achieve far beyond what he may seem to reach if only he has a vision and strives hard to achieve it.
“We should emulate the values and vision exhibited by Dr. Jose Rizal. He showed us that even if we were colonized by foreign invaders, we can refuse to be bound by them by having a vision and strengthening our values. He showed that Filipinos could excel and compete with the best,” he said.
“Jose Rizal made us in his own image in the sense that if you get an education and see the world at the same time and stick to your conviction about the vision for our country, stick to your values, you can indeed get the necessary country that you want,” he added.
Herrera said Senator Richard J. Gordon, Bagumbayan founding chairman, was guided by the values inculcated by Rizal when he started the Bagumbayan Movement which seeks to rediscover and revitalize the Filipinos’ identity by having a vision grounded on values and empowered by volunteerism.
He explained that the Bagumbayan aims to regain the Filipinos’ sense of responsibility, to reinvent the government that it may faithfully perform its duty to serve and protect the people, to fortify law and order, and to build a strong and growing economy.
It also strives to prioritize education, provide adequate health care, create jobs, assist people in securing homes and land, strengthen the family as the foundation of the nation, and protect and preserve the environment for posterity.
“Bagumbayan is not a place. It is an attitude. If we want genuine transformation, the change must start in every Filipino. We have to re-invent ourselves, and we must not cease from hoping. It is time we break the walls in our minds as Rizal did and say, we can do it,” the Bagumbayan president said.
“With vision, values and volunteerism, we will achieve victory which would translate to progress and development for our country,” he added.
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