Bong Aportadera
Davao City Tourism Office director
I was graduating from high school during Edsa and her getting into office. Like any young citizen, I was very optimistic and extremely idealistic that Cory would turn things around for us and the country.
Cory dignified the seat of power and gave hope to many, me included. I will forever be proud to have lived through this era in our history, and say that I was part of it.
Leilani Ayala
Businesswoman
President Cory to me will always be the President who never cheated, who never stole. She depicts total freedom and fought for it till death! She is the only President in the world that even in her death bed that could unite the Filipino people to pray for her beloved country!
She was a woman who lived her life by perfect example. She was the praying woman who believed in god’s will, she embraced her cancer and knew that god had a plan for her. She is philippine’s greatest president, like her husband ninoy, she is a hero!
Dorothy Bangayan-Lee
Businesswoman
Cory Aquino embodies the scripture… “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”It amazes and inspires me that her quiet strength can be such a great unifying force for the Filipino people.
Emil Vincent Sitjar
Businessman
Although we are a country of 7,100 islands and divided by each of our local culture and tradtions, Cory Aquino was able to unite the Philippines in 1986 thus restoring freedom and democracy. I admire her humility. She did not allow her immense global popularity to go to her head nor was she selfish. Instead, she used it to forward the interest of the country.
More than the admiration the Philippines enjoyed because of having a noble leader, Cory Aquino restored the Filipinos’ faith in themselves.
Monette Torres-Cutler
Event organizer
Cory Aquino, before her Presidency, was a woman standing alone before the dragons of dictatorship, refusing to bow down despite the fury and might lashed against her. She made a very powerful visual, for women all over the country, and for Filipinos, all over the world.
Cory Aquino, as President, was a beacon of light and hope for a people rendered inutile and subservient. She served as inspiration, that Filipinos can overcome and triumph over the darkest time of their history and wake up smiling, raring to live life as freemen once again.
I believe Cory Aquino was the greatest President of the Philippines. She didn’t cling to power, and gracefully surrendered to the will of the people. And her life didn’t end after her presidency, she was eternally vigilant against the dragons disguised as lambs among us.
Karen Lee Alabado
Dermatologist
I was in high school in Diliman when Cory was thrust into power. I remember her presidency marked by our missing classes for a week or so because of coup attempts with me going home to Davao more often than usual, but she survived all these. She was this widow, this housewife who took on the mantle of democracy for her husband, her children and for us. She made me feel proud to be a Filipino.
Andi Baldonado
DJ/Host
I regret having said that Cory didn’t have a significant impact on me. I’ve said that to a friend who suddenly asked me who Cory was to me.
I was only days old when finally the Filipinos have ousted Marcos from his seat of dictatorship. and the rest of history was told to me by my parents and by the media. I didn’t live through the years when Cory was in the seat of presidency creating waves of change for our nation. and so I simply told my friend that Cory had no significant impact on me at a personal level.
And then it hit me that what she has stood for as our President then has led to where we are now. Cory has empowered the Filipino voice to freedom and democracy. and for that I am grateful to her for my present and inspired to not lose hope for the future of our nation.
