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Macario is the third-oldest brother in Carlos’s family. Macario attends the high school in Lingayen, making him the only member of the family to receive a formal education beyond grade school. Because the family can only afford to send one child to school full time, father and mother work hard to ensure that Macario has the money to finish school in the hopes that he can become a teacher and help provide for the family. Thus, early in the book, Macario (and the income he can potentially generate) serves as the family’s most potent source of hope for a better life. Macario eventually finishes high school and becomes a teacher who provides the family with much-needed income, but he never earns enough money to buy back the family’s four hectares of land from the moneylender. Like his other brother, Amado, Macario is an important influence on Carlos throughout his life. When Carlos is sick as a boy, Macario uses the novel Robinson Crusoe and the biblical story of Moses to teach him to develop his own intellectual capabilities in order to help him endure life’s hardships. In America, Macario continues to influence Carlos’s intellectual development as the two brothers steep themselves in the socialist tradition and work in the labor union movement. The most important lesson that Macario imparts to Carlos is that the American promise of equality for all is an unfinished, ongoing process, which Filipinos and other immigrants must work to fulfill.
Macario Quotes in America Is in the Heart
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Chapter 25
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America is not merely a land or an institution. America is in the hearts of men that died for freedom; it is also in the eyes of men that are building a new world.
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Chapter 27
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I could not believe it: the gods of yesterday were falling to pieces. They were made of clay. I had to make my own gods, create my own symbols, and worship in my own fashion.
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Chapter 33
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I wanted to educate myself as fast as possible, and the fury of my desire was so tumultuous, I could not rest.
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Chapter 37
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Maybe I succeeded in erasing the sores, but the scars remained to remind me, in moments of spiritual vicissitudes, of the tragic days of those years.
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Chapter 46
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Then it came to me how absolutely necessary it was to acquaint the Filipinos with the state of the nation.
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We are Americans all who have toiled for this land, who have made it rich and free. But we must not demand from America, because she is still our unfinished dream.
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Macario Quotes in America Is in the Heart
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Chapter 25
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America is not merely a land or an institution. America is in the hearts of men that died for freedom; it is also in the eyes of men that are building a new world.
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Chapter 27
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I could not believe it: the gods of yesterday were falling to pieces. They were made of clay. I had to make my own gods, create my own symbols, and worship in my own fashion.
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Chapter 33
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I wanted to educate myself as fast as possible, and the fury of my desire was so tumultuous, I could not rest.
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Chapter 37
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Maybe I succeeded in erasing the sores, but the scars remained to remind me, in moments of spiritual vicissitudes, of the tragic days of those years.
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Chapter 46
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Then it came to me how absolutely necessary it was to acquaint the Filipinos with the state of the nation.
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We are Americans all who have toiled for this land, who have made it rich and free. But we must not demand from America, because she is still our unfinished dream.
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