Leadership Quote by Corazon Aquino

A political leader admits faith in miracles and, in doing so, quietly rewrites the rules of credibility. Corazon Aquino's line lands because it refuses the usual technocratic posture of presidents - the practiced impression that history is a spreadsheet and governance is pure control. "I am not embarrassed" signals she knows the modern suspicion: belief is for the private sphere, while public authority is supposed to be rational, managerial, unemotional. She names that suspicion and steps over it.

The word "miracles" is doing double duty. In a Catholic-majority Philippines, it resonates as literal faith, a nod to a moral universe bigger than Marcos-era power and intimidation. Politically, it also functions as a secular claim: regimes that look immovable can fall; crowds can become a force; fear can evaporate. People Power was widely described in near-mystical terms not because Filipinos couldn't count votes, but because the scale of the shift felt disproportionate to the tools available to ordinary citizens. "Miracle" becomes a shorthand for collective agency that doesn't yet have a neat causal story.

Aquino's intent is less to preach than to authorize hope as a public virtue. She frames belief not as naivete but as courage - a refusal to be shamed out of imagining outcomes beyond the "realistic" options offered by the powerful. Coming from a president who rose from widowhood into leadership amid assassination, uprising, and democratic restoration, the line is also personal testimony: the improbable happened, so building the future requires a politics roomy enough for the improbable again.