My predecessor set aside democracy to save it from a communist insurgency that numbered less than 500. Unhampered by respect for human rights, he went at it with hammer and tongs. By the time he fled, that insurgency had grown to more than 16,000. I think there is a lesson here to be learned about trying to stifle a thing with a means by which it grows.
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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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