Our Cause

We are entitled to give our own opinions, but we have to make sure that our opinions are rooted from deeper principles and strong foundations.

The world is too crowded with people who say a lot of things, and the microcosmic world we belong makes no difference.

Different opinions thrive in every place whenever there are people and concerns. Sentiments and beliefs become the armor that people wear to survive their daily battles. Some call for preserving something that existed since time immemorial as if changing a norm will mean a grave crime. Others appeal for  reforms as if the current situation is an extreme illness that need to be cured.

We hear small and loud voices every day, and it is our biggest responsibility to filter these voices. Some of these voices will cause harm not only to us but also to the people we care. That is something we would never want to happen. The other voices will present themselves as solutions to our dire problems. It can be a blessing in disguise. Therefore, we have to be vigilant and intelligent on what to accept and what to reject.

Our moral obligation does not stop in accepting and rejecting. Our call lies far greater than that.

We are called to express our opinions the way heroes declare their battle cries.

As a member of a greater majority, our voice is priceless. Our people, especially our children, deserve to hear our voices. Thus, we should commit ourselves to echo ideas that uphold integrity and compassion. Through the course of our academic life, we engage ourselves in a thinking lifestyle. Therefore, the ideas  that we share should not be shortchanged by less profound ideas that benefit no one. Every idea that we express should count. It should manifest a strong hope for the hopeless and a strength for the helpless. It should be a weapon that will protect us as a people--today and tomorrow.

It is a sad reality that some people are intelligent, yet they make unintelligent decisions. Their ambitions might bring them to the top, but doing so will cause the less advantaged to the bottomless pit. What for? Fame? Prestige? Gain? Victory? If those things are worth fighting for, then all of us must engage ourselves in the greatest battles of our lives. However, having ourselves us the center of everything will never make us happy, proud, and successful. Along the way, we will see ourselves falling together with a myriad people who failed because of us.

When things go wrong, we have to speak for justice. We should be part of a solution, not a witness to a growing problem. Watching tragic things happen is the most pathetic matter a righteous human being can do. In the end, the peace we feel when we sleep on our beds tells us that we did the right thing.

We have to do things right.

For God.

For our people.

And for our children.