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Quotation from The Social Cancer (Noli Me Tangere) by José Rizal
“I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land! You, who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!”
The Social Cancer (Noli Me Tangere), Chapter LXIII, Christmas Eve, trans. Charles E. Derbyshire (1912)
Elias's dying words.
Citation: "I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land! You, who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!" — José Rizal, The Social Cancer (Noli Me Tangere), Chapter LXIII, Christmas Eve, trans. Charles E. Derbyshire (1912). (id rizal-the-social-cancer-q2)
