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In its desire to unite women in the Philippines and in other countries who value the beliefs and principles of Dr. Jose P. Rizal and are willing and ready to uphold them, the Chapter aims to:

 

1.      Respect the memory of Dr. Jose Rizal;

2.      Know and understand his views;

3.      Motivate others to emulate his teachings and examples;

4.      Work in cooperation with the Order of the Knights of Rizal in the propagation of Rizals beliefs and principles;

5.      Enkindle the spirit of unity and sorority among members;

6.      Love, use and propagate the national language;

7.     Discourage anyone who wishes to promote anything with a political or religious color; and

8.     Strive to cooperate with other organizations in promoting its activities.

In a message delivered by the Chapters first president during one of the induction ceremonies, she told her audience that  she was once asked by a good friend what Dr. Jose Rizal meant to her, and she had answered: More than his assesssment of himself. He is not only guilty of what he was accused of: sparking the Filipino Revolution of 1896. More importantly, he is guilty of making me dream of a Philippines ... not a country brought down to her knees and willing to sell her body and soul for a fistful of rice ... but a country who takes her rightful place among the League of Nations, with her head and her honor unblemished and held high.

 

She was explicit on how to make this dream a reality when she said to the inductees:

I welcome you to join us in introducing Dr. Jose Rizal to those who havent heard of him. I welcome you to join us in reminding those who already know him of what his life stood for and what he died for: that when the dying Elias gave the gold to the child, Basilio, and told him to use it for his education, Dr. Jose Rizal wasnt merely telling his readers to send their children to school. He was urging his countrymen, regardless of age, to acquire knowledge, to look around and comprehend, to travel, to learn Spanish, the language of their aggressors, and other languages.

 

I welcome you to join us in reminding the Filipino expatriates in Hamburg, Berlin, Brandenburg, in Germany, in fact, in the entire globe, that we can, and should have the best of two worlds... by keeping our gems: love of country, filial piety, honor, freedom, dignity, and polishing them; by ridding ourselves of our undesirable attributes: for instance the art of being always late, which Filipinos have honed to perfection, and which we, even we who have lived for decades in this land of the punctual, stubbornly continue to practice; by identifying the virtues of the natives of our host country and making them our own.

 

I welcome you to join us in persuading our countrymen to strive for this change in themselves, to want it and to be proud of it. Because this is the Filipino that Dr. Jose Rizal envisioned: the able and dignified human being who is at par with the rest of the world.... not just a commodity that ranks among the bananas, copra, sugar and fish as the most desired export material of our country.

 

Only when this Filipino emerges can our beloved Philippines take her rightful place among the League of Nations with her head and her honor unblemished and held high.

 

This is what Dr. Jose Rizal lived and died for. This is what he meant when he said, Non omnis moriar. Not everything in me shall die.