Jose Rizal was a visionary who wanted to liberate his people from ignorance, injustice,

and discrimination. As stated in the article, he brings his people's experiences and pains to light
through his works and writings, particularly his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, in
an effort to alert his compatriots to facts that had long been unspoken, if not completely
unknown.He presented to his people how the bribery and corruption of the friars had turned the
Catholic faith into a tool of dominance, prostituting it with exterior activities that foster the illusion
of worship. Not only by exhorting high prices for church services, but also by unjustly acquiring
land estates, they have enriched themselves. They made civil officials fearful of them.
Rizal, however, did not place all of the blame on the religious and civil authorities; he
was open about the Filipinos' flaws and shortcomings. The people had bound their thoughts and
debased their minds through their timidity, fear, and cowardice. They despise their own
compatriots and make themselves foolish with their pretensions of counterfeit mimicry, tainted
by the Spaniards' airs of superiority. Rizal chastised this, as well as the natives' underlying
embarrassments about their own lineage, and aspired to become a Spaniard in order to
eradicate all traces of Filipino in them, which he subsequently boasted about to everyone. As a
result, they were progressively enslaved by the Spaniards. Rizal famously said, "There are no
dictators where there are no slaves."
Moreover, Rizal proved that his people were not an anthropoid species, as the
Spaniards claimed, and he defended his race against the insults and prejudices directed at the
Filipinos. Although Filipinos, like everyone else, have vices and flaws, they are not the ones that
Spanish writers assign to them—that there is no stimulation to quality or merit. On the contrary,
unless Filipinos serve the friars, they are mocked and insulted when they ascend above the
heap. Many Filipinos are persecuted for standing up for their rights and many are exiled from
their homes because of false conspiracies.
He aimed to restore pride in Filipino forebears, which he saw as an important component
in the building of national consciousness, as well as respond to critiques of Filipinos and their
culture. He refuted the Spaniards' claims, demonstrating that the Philippines had a rich culture
in the past. Rizal made every attempt to persuade the Spanish administration that social,
political, and religious reforms in the Philippines were urgently needed. And that violence is not
the best solution, and that it should be achieved in a calm and rational manner, with education
being one example. He attempted to demonstrate that there was no rebellion or revolution in the
Philippines, but that there would be if the friars' and administration's abuses and excesses
pushed Filipinos to their absolute limit.
His works, as mentioned in the article, reawakened Philippine nationalism. Rizal was an
outspoken critic of the Spanish government, yet he did so in a peaceful and progressive
manner. Rizal harshly denounced Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines in both works,
exposing the country's faults at the time. As more Filipinos read the texts, they realized that the
friars were abusing them in horrific ways. The Philippine Revolution is supposed to have been
triggered inadvertently by these two works by Rizal, which are now considered his literary
masterpieces.