"Master or slave, king or subject, prince or pauper, powerful or weak, rich or poor, no man is above the law." ~Sandigan Bayan Justice
"And so (sic) the blinding pain we felt in the hands of the oligarchs and the political elite had finally reached tipping point." ~Lorraine T. Badoy, USec PCOO, October 2017
"And we are asked to be cunning, to keep our wits about us and to be so much more than we've been when we were told we weren't worth incorruptible public officials who got things done. (Remember those dark, dreary days when we had corruption practically coming out of our noses?)" ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, 14 December 2016
"Come to the table with clean hands and pure hearts. Serve the people for no other reason than because this is your sacred duty to do so. And do it with all you’ve got. Make nothing about you." ~L. T. Badoy, December 14, 2017
"......., Death has always been the compass by which I have lived my life. I proceed with the knowledge that all these will end sooner than later ." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, extracted from her article "Blush"
"For the sake of our children and for Filipinos yet to be born, our president is that runner who runs—no matter if it rains and wild winds buffet him." ~Lorraine Marie T Badoy, from Rody The Relentless, March 16, 2017
"How can so much beauty paint so much sadness as well?" ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, Social Welfare ASec, June 6, 2017
"I firmly believe that the best way to heal our nation and then our world is to heal ourselves first—so we no longer inflict ourselves on others." ~Lorraine (Heal, My Beloved Country) March 24, 2017
"I’ve known for quite some time now: those Ivy League schools are elitist breeding grounds for some of the world’s biggest, most arrogant, IGNORANT hypocrites whose hearts have not been schooled so they think themselves above everyone and that is their place to run roughshod over anyone and to do damn well as they please–with not an ounce of self-examination so they look like fools with their amusing pronouncements bereft of the simplest of reflection." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy on Chelsea Clinton calling PRRD "murderous thug" (May 2017 from her blog)
"I love a fellow traveler in life who knows clearly and without forgetting what it is he’s made of —dust, merely dust—and who hasn’t lost sight of his mortality." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, extracted from her article "Blush"
"I never thought I’d see the day when a Philippine president would be this simple." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy on meeting Pres. RR Duterte, FB, 8 December 2016
"I WANT MY COUNTRY ON HIGH GROUND NOW. WE HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, March 19, 2017
"I watch them dance and I listen to their songs and something in me stirs—like a memory of something I had long forgotten. And I know what it is. They make me remember what it is to be Filipino before we learned the language of defeat—tragically, a language we are so fluent at." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, BUGAN, March 24, 2017
"It is now time to claim back all that we have lost." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, March 19, 2017 (Manay, the Babaeng Digong)
"Life has a dark underbelly and this dark underbelly asks that we be dark ourselves and to be cunning. To practice sleight of hand with those who have dealt us a rotten hand. It won’t do to be the wide-eyed, buttoned up marm who insists that rules –of etiquette, of protocol, of civil society etc etc–be followed even when we deal with low lives." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, Heart To Heart Talk, 12 January 2017 (from Digongmylabs blog)
"Local politics matter far more than national politics in the greater scheme of things. Right down and on the ground is where real transformation starts and happens. A metaphor for life if you think about it. How all change starts in the fundamental things in our lives: our hearts, our minds, our souls. Not anything grand. Often, quiet." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy on Iloilo City (May 27, 2017)
"My country, we are getting on high ground. We are gathering broken pieces of our selves and putting them together, a piece at a time." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, Heal, My Beloved Country, March 24, 2017
"My plane just landed here in Davao. As much as possible, I get a window seat because the view is what I think you pay for when you ride a plane. Yup, not the speed, not the convenience. But for me, the sight of stars that wink at you and the bright moon serenely floating in the heavens. And then when the plane turns this way, how the moon's reflection shimmers in the silver sea. Like it did tonight." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, December 8, 2017
"Seriously, how does one sleep at night knowing you got wealthy on the backs of the toiling masses? How does one enjoy living off BLOOD MONEY?" ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy on Hacienda Luisita.
"... stop fanning on anyone. And start seeing yourself as ........ THE agent of change—as your own savior." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, December 18, 2016
"The ironies of our day --and its paradoxes too---will teach us so much and will most probably guide us to where it is we must go. Because I am convinced, these are crucial days our country is going through." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, 14 December 2016
"The truth is often somewhere in the middle and as adults we need to be able to bear the tensions of the extremes that pull at us—those who minimize these deaths and those who blow it up to proportions that drag us all down... I hold these deaths inside me and often they are too painful to hold. But I submit that in order for those deaths to mean something, we must make sure this war is won." - Dr. Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, December 28, 2016
"They (Ifugaos) make me remember star lit nights and sitting by the fire, breathing the air of free Filipinos. They are of the soul—all that’s true and noble about us as a people. We owe them a debt of gratitude for showing us what a dignified Filipino looks and sounds like." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, BUGAN, March 24, 2017
"Today was a good day for me. I got to be up close and personal with the President—a highly vilified man (vilified by elitists mostly, that’s what) and yet, too, one of the most beloved presidents this country has ever had. And I got to give him OUR message of gratitude and support........In the end, history will be the final judge of this man. I pray he turns out to be the transformational leader we all want so badly for him to be." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy on meeting Pres. RR Duterte, FB, 8 December 2016
"We are no longer talking about one man, our President but all that he stands for : country." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, USec PCOO
"We must never lose our humanity—our ability to feel the pain of others even as we must never succumb to simplistic readings of what really is a highly complicated situation. " ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, 22 December 2016
"We would be the kind of people we were always meant to be--- forward looking, courageous, compassionate, critical thinkers. A people who forge their own destiny." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, December 18, 2016
"What you have in mind is the strengthening of our country’s democratic processes and at the heart of all of this is the empowered citizen. And that would be YOU." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, December 18, 2016
"When we heal ourselves, we heal the world around us." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy on THE CAUTIONARY TALE THAT IS JIM PAREDES, February 26, 2017
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