Diego Silang

Diego Silang accomplished most in the line of a high endeavor, and had he lived long enough to carry out his plans, the course of history might have been changed. Rizal the Tagalog, Dagohoy the Visayan, and Silan the Ilocano seem to embody the three ideals of their times. Of the three only Silan was able to realize any of his policies before his death. While Rizal's ideals were general, and Dagohoy's personal, those of Silan were in aid of the down-trodden, the poor and lowly-the kalians who were little better than serfs on the lands of the babaknangs or principalia, who were held loyal to the Church rather than to abstract principles of justice or equity. Silan, on the contrary, although of the principalia himself, with no particular grievance and no ambition to lead a revolt, found it forced upon him through an accident beyond his control. native figures in the revolts of the Philippines, there is no doubt but that Silan accomplished most in the line of a high endeavor, and had he lived long enough to carry out his plans, the course of history might have been changed.