El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21 Script -

I believe in education, in progress. The students are organizing. We will ask for a Spanish language academy—

I will build – but with others, not alone.

(Isagani opens the pouch. Inside is a small, jagged piece of lead – a bullet.) El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21 Script

Then what would you have us do? Kill? Burn?

(turning sharply) Then build me a bomb.

That is murder.

(slams the ruby on the table) Ask? You will ask the friars? The same men who whip your countrymen and call it charity? I believe in education, in progress

(without looking up) Yes. Close the door. The rain has a way of washing away good sense.

(cutting him off) Reforms are bandages on a corpse. Your “form” – the Filipino – is already dead. What walks around is a ghost. (He picks up the skull.) This was a man. He wrote petitions. He believed in justice. They killed him anyway. (Isagani opens the pouch

(taking the pouch cautiously) What is it?

(Silence. Isagani steps back.)