Answer to Question #303883 in History for ses

Question

What was the purpose for Cory Aquino's speech before the US Congress in 1986? To accomplish this goal, how did she present the state of the country at the time?

Answer 1

"We fought for honor, and, if only for honor, we shall pay," she said, agreeing to pay the debt that was stolen by Marcos.

Cory Aquino's speech tried to reassure the people of philipines that she was up to the task as she stated that a "task had fallen on my shoulders, to continue offering the democratic alternative to our people. Archibald Macleish had said that democracy must be defended by arms when it is attacked by arms, and with truth when it is attacked by lies. He failed to say how it shall be won. I held fast to Ninoy's conviction that it must be by the ways of democracy. 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 foregone 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.

She also assured them that democracy will be maintained in their country