President Cory Aquino's historic speech (1/3) before the U.S. Congress (9-18-1986)

On September 18, 1986, just 7 months after she was swept to power by a popular revolt against dictator Ferdinand Marcos, president Corazon C. Aquino addressed the joint session of the United States Congress during her first visit to the country since she came home to bury slain opposition leader and husband Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" S. Aquino, Jr. in August 1983.


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[pilipinasmabuhay100]

Para sa isang BAYANG MALAYA - Para sa tinatamasa naming DEMOKRASYA at lalong-lalo na para sa isang MARANGAL na BANSA, taos-pusong pasasalamat sa iyo, PANGULONG CORAZON AQUINO.

Nasa puso ka lagi ng bawat PILIPINO.

[danteVEC725]

noy noy for president

[princesskaroke]

Ina ng Bayan <3

[sweetasflip]

@kitty10174 and The US figured that its better to change support to Cory since the people wanted democracy anyway so in other words US doesn't care who prevails so long has Philippines maintains as a friendly state to the US

[sweetasflip]

@kitty10174 @kitty10174 yeah i agree, they supported Marcus because even though he wanted a Martial Law but so long as its not communist state and friendly to US, and you also have to remeber that the US has military bases in the region at that time and they cannot afford to lose such an ally. so when they found out that a revolution was taking place it made the US very concern that the communist in the south would take over but as it turns out the people wanted democracy

[kramzurc1]

Awesome.

[dinfg6]

@kitty10174 That is true because the USA had a base in the Philippines

[acuxiiRHIKU]

nice

[qwertyuiopz123]

@kitty10174 true but insignificant

[kitty10174]

Hope nobody is forgetting that the United States was backing up the government or dictatorship of Marcos... They were helping him until they noticed that the people would not put up with his crap anymore... conveniently they changed their minds...

[bobbiegirl10001]

Gosh, I can't really stop crying, yet I've watched this hundreds of times..Proud, proud to be a Filipino.

[dinfg6]

@Djygeneral If Marcos was president for another 25 years then the berlin wall would still exist today and the Cold War would still happen today and Nelson Mandela would be assasinated 20 years ago. Cory and Ninoy proved that McCarthyism does not work. Look at Senator Joseph McCarthy hearings in the 1950's he tried to make the USA go through Martial Law too with allegations to treason with the Rosenburgs. Once the Rosenbergs were executed then America did question McCarthy's tactics,