Ni Jose Rizal I Kapagka ang baya'y sadyang umiibig  Sa kanyang salitang kaloob ng langit, Sanlang kalayaan nasa ring masapit  Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid.  II Pagka't ang salita'y isang kahatulan  Sa bayan, sa nayo't mga kaharian  At ang isang tao'y katulad, kabagay  Ng aling man likha noong kalayaan.  III Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita  Mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda,  Kaya ang marapat pagyamaning kusa  Na tulad sa inang tunay na nagpala.  IV Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din sa Latin, Sa Ingles, Kastila at salitang anghel, Sapagka't ang Poong maalam tumingin  Ang siyang naggawad,  nagbigay sa atin.  V Ang salita nati'y tulad din sa iba  Na may alpabeto at sariling letra, Na kaya nawala'y dinatnan ng sigwa    Ang lunday sa lawa  noong dakong una. 

By Joffre Balce Would like to examine Jose Rizal as an intellectual more closely. He was not so much a journalist or philosopher like Karl Marx but shared his  belief in the equality of people in rights . His social philosophy was more guided by Robert Owen and  Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, based on his co-op endeavours in Dapitan. Politically, he is unlike the nationalists like fellow Latinos Simon Bolivar and Jose Marti but adopts a position where Filipinos are equal in rights with Spaniards under a federation of states or a Commonwealth of nations. As a literateur, Rizal put in Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo elements of Victor Hugo's reflections on social justice and the moral struggles of humanity in Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Crisostomo Ibarra and  his persona of Simon even resembled Emily Brontë's Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights. As a visual artist and sculptor, he was a scientist in his approach, concerned with capturing the substance, form and  func...