I held out for participation in the 1984 election the dictatorship called, even if I knew it would be rigged. I was warned by the lawyers of the opposition that I ran the grave risk of legitimizing the forgone results of elections that were clearly going to be fraudulent. But I was not fighting for lawyers, but for the people in whose intelligence I had implicit faith. By the exercise of democracy, even in a dictatorship, they would be prepared for democracy when it came.
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Corazon Aquino
President of the Philippines, 1986–1992
Philippines · 1933–2009
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Served as President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992, taking office after the People Power Revolution ended the rule of Ferdinand Marcos. She entered politics after the assassination of her husband, opposition senator Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr., in 1983.
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