Why or how could Filipinos do this? Is there a way of explaining this? Is there anyone among 54 million Filipinos who had an inkling this would come about? Winning our freedom, forcing Mr. Marcos into exile, and doing all this in the most nonviolent way in all world history?

Fr. Jose Blanco, SJ
Founder, Aksyon Para sa Kapayapaan at Katarungan
(Movement for Peace and Justice)

Revolutions tend to be ugly, even when successful. This is an exception; it is a "beautiful revolution." Its "combatants" include men, women, and children who had more fun than fear during the event, and who like to think of what they went through as a religious experience.

Francisco S. Tatad
Excerpt: Manila, Feast of the Annunciation, 1986

We have all to link and expand our ranks till the entire country is bound together with the strength and the ardor of our resolve. I do not exaggerate when I say this could our last chance to save democracy in the Philippines. The darkness thickens and we have to move.

Joaquin "Chino" Roces
Charman of the Cory Aquino for President Movement
(From a speech delivered on October 15, 1985

What qualifications does she have except that her husband was killed?...She always stands up and asks for pity, making believe that there was no reason for her husband's arrest.

Ferdinand E. Marcos

Now is the time to speak up. Now is the time to repair the wrong. The wrong was systematically organized. So must its correction be. But as in the election itself, that depends fully on the people; on what they are willing and ready to do. We, the bishops, stand in solidarity with them in the common discernment for the good of the nation.

The Catholic Bishops of the Philippines
(In a statement after the election, February 13, 1986)

Blessed are you when wicked men abuse you and perecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you all because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. This is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

Excerpt from a gospel reading
Funeral mass for Evelio Javier, Ateneo de Manila University

Enrile said that President Marcos threatened to have Camp Aguinaldo raided ant that the only way to stop such an attack would be to ask for the help of the people. When he was on the phone, it seemed like he was about to cry. Enrile was obviously nervous. He was the underdog. He must have felt that the end was near. It was war

Pete Reyes
Photographer

We were just waiting for somebody to lead us. We were just waiting to see who would be brave enough to stand up. But even before that we had already wanted to move -- we could no longer stomach the circus they had made of the elections and the Batasan Proclamation.

Eulogio Gonzales
Policeman

It was very touching for me to see and feel the good will and camaraderie that the people extended to one another, even to complete strangers. While walking toward the barricades, I saw an old woman stop a young man who was on his way home -- to offer him some water. "Here, my son, have a drink to refresh yourself," I heard her say. "I am too old to help you stop the soldiers, but the least I can do is help you regain your strength so you can rejoin your companions in the front line soon . . ."

Juan Flavier