Revolt!

It wasn’t until African American woman, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and challenge the racist bus policies of her state that the rules changed. In the same manner, sometimes action against the norms (set standard) is necessary to create change for the good and for society overall.

Filipinos did not willingly accept Spanish conquest. Within over 300 years of Spanish colonization, there were 81 recorded accounts of revolts around the islands. One famous revolt was led by a woman named Gabriela Silang, who continued the “Ilocos Revolt” in 1763 after her husband died. Ideas of freedom and self-determination were present in the Filipino people, and this desire for independence and justice against unfair an unfair Spanish system was the background for Filipino leaders of the Philippine Revolution.