Corry Aquino Speech

Question 1

was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, becoming the first woman to hold that office.

Answer 1

Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

Question 2

Presidential term

Answer 2

25 February 1986 – 30 June 1992

Question 3

Corazon “Cory” Cojuangco Aquino functioned as the symbol of the restoration of democracy and the overthrow of the Marcos Dictatorship in 1986.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

When did Cory made her speech

Answer 4

18th of September 1986,

Question 5

The government sought to break him by indignities and terror.
They locked him up in a tiny, nearly airless cell in a military camp in the north.
They stripped him naked and held a threat of a sudden midnight execution over his head. Ninoy held up manfully under all of it. I barely did as well.
For forty-three days, the authorities would not tell me what had happened to him.

Answer 5

1st time they lost ninoy

Question 6

He was tried by a military court, whose legitimacy Ninoy adamantly questioned. To solidify his protest, Ninoy decided to do a hunger strike and fasted for 40 days

Answer 6

2nd time they lost ninoy

Question 7

And then, we lost we lost him irrevocably and more painfully than in the past.
The news came to us in Boston. It had to be after the three happiest years of our lives together.
But his death was my country’s resurrection and the courage and faith by which alone they could be free again. The dictator had called him a nobody.

Answer 7

the third and the last time that Cory and their children lost Ninoy.