Cecilia Muñoz-Palma
Cecilia Arreglado Muñoz-Palma (November 22, 1913 – January 2, 2006) was a Filipino jurist and the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ferdinand Marcos on October 29, 1973, and served until she reached the then-mandatory retirement age of 65.
Quotes
[edit]- When I took my oath of office, I said to myself that my loyalty is not to the appointing power but to the Constitution, to justice and to the Filipino people.
- We shall be judged by history…not by what we want to do and can’t, but by what we ought to do and don’t.
- Grandiose acts are not the measure of greatness; it is the small things that we do in the name of love and service to God, country and fellowmen that really counts.
- My loyalty is to the Constitution, to justice, and to the Filipino people.
- A beautiful irony which cannot be overlooked.
- Munoz-Palma in her closing remarks at the 1986 constitutional commission’s final session, referring to the paving of a new constitutional order that valued human rights, rule of law and democracy ironically crafted inside the same Batasang Pambansa which, for a time, stood for “constitutional authoritarianism.”
- https://opinion.inquirer.net/157613/who-watches-the-watchmen-2
- When matters of conscience are at issue, one must be prepared to espouse and embrace a rightful cause, however unpopular it may be.’
- There rose before my eyes this gruesome specter of one, a hundred, a thousand civilian Filipinos being dragged by the mighty arms of the military before its own created and manned tribunals…for offenses, real or imaginary….
- Marcos’ referendum to legitimize martial law can be of no far-reaching significance as it is accomplished under an atmosphere or climate of fear.
