Freedom Fighters Essay

This document discusses two historical figures, Mahatma Gandhi and Jose Rizal, who fought for freedom from colonial rule in India and the Philippines, respectively. As a lawyer, Gandhi advocated for human rights and led non-violent protests against discrimination by the British occupiers in India. Rizal was a writer who penned two novels exposing the abuses of the Spanish colonizers in the Philippines, and was executed for his writings which were seen as conspiring against their rule. Both men used non-violent means such as written manifestos to protest colonial injustices, and faced imprisonment or death for their activism.

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Freedom Fighters

by: Fox Steven B. Jaleco

Sometimes the greatest of change requires the strongest of

will. Mahatma K. Ghandi, and Jose Rizal would agree. Freedom is
not always abundant regardless that it is inherent. Both heroes
had to face the harsh reality of their own nation's struggle for
freedom; Ghandi being on the onset of the British occupation, and
Rizal during the Spanish Colonisation in the Philippines.

Jose Rizal started off as just a writer. Well-known for his

Noli Me Tangere and el Filibustetismo, Jose Rizal wrote against
the Spanish Colonisers in order to hold their freedom back.
Ghandi on the other hand, was a lawyer. Due to the maltreatment
the British occupants gave him during his latter years as a
lawyer, Ghandi became a renowned advocate of human rights in
behalf of the discriminated victims of India.

During the colonisation of the Spanish, Filipinos were not

all well treated right. They vested no right to learn Spanish as
they were labelled “stupid” by the Spanish. Filipinos too had no
say against affairs they did not come into concur with the pryles
of that current period. Filipinos whom wrote or acted in
conspiracy against the Spanish were sentenced to death. Rizal
hence being executed post the time his manifestos were discovered
by the governing power.

Ghandi on the other hand, faced a not so different fate.

The Indians, more specifically the Muslims, were discriminated by
British forces and were deprived of their own rights, hence
Ghandi forming a rebellion against the British. Those found
guilty of conspiracy and insubordination toward British law, were
tortured, and often sentenced to die.

Extrapolating both their avenues for change, both

individuals displayed significant gestures. Much like Rizal's
written manifestos that depicted the nature of the Spanish
Colonisers in their conquest in the Philippines, and Ghandi's
spoken manifestos that rebelled against the British intent to
strip Muslims off their rights.

When considering both time periods of the individual’s,

there was no specific extent as to how far their means could
reach. Rizal stood at the eye of the colonised Philippine nation
at a time where education was a Hustle for young Filipinos, and
Ghandi rose in the brink of British totalitarian rule over the
Muslim domain of India. When manifesto comes into mind, it often
drives an individual to a conotative understanding toward a
certain material or endeavour that intends to contend with
current governing rule. Often times, manifestos reward it’s
proponent nothing, but the cost of their own lives.