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Father Millón
Makaraig is a wealthy Filipino student and one of the leaders of the movement for a Spanish-language academy. Makaraig’s house is used as a meeting place, and he generously supports the other students with loans when needed. After the students’ petitions are denied and their moment is suppressed, however, Makaraig chooses to leave for Europe rather than reenroll in university in Manila.
Makaraig Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Makaraig or refer to Makaraig. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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22. The Performance
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“The French language really doesn’t have the rich sonority or the varied and elegant cadences of the Castilian language. I cannot fathom, I cannot imagine, I cannot formulate an idea of French orators and I doubt they have ever existed, nor could they exist in the true sense of the word, in the strict sense of the idea.”
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25. Laughter and Weeping
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“Get rid of them and the indio will cease to exist. The friar is the father, the indio is the word! The friar is the sculptor, the indio the statue, because everything we are, everything we think, and everything we do we owe to the friars, to their patience, to their work, to their three centuries of modification of what Nature afforded us. And in a Philippines without friars or indios, what will happen to the poor government, in the hands of the Chinese?”
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Makaraig Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Makaraig or refer to Makaraig. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
22. The Performance
Quotes
“The French language really doesn’t have the rich sonority or the varied and elegant cadences of the Castilian language. I cannot fathom, I cannot imagine, I cannot formulate an idea of French orators and I doubt they have ever existed, nor could they exist in the true sense of the word, in the strict sense of the idea.”
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25. Laughter and Weeping
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“Get rid of them and the indio will cease to exist. The friar is the father, the indio is the word! The friar is the sculptor, the indio the statue, because everything we are, everything we think, and everything we do we owe to the friars, to their patience, to their work, to their three centuries of modification of what Nature afforded us. And in a Philippines without friars or indios, what will happen to the poor government, in the hands of the Chinese?”
