The Women of the Philippines is a powerful speech delivered by Filipina suffragette Clemencia López at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Woman Suffragettes Association in 1902.  Clemencia was only 26 when she travelled alone from the Philippines to the US to petition President Theodore Roosevelt for the freedom of her brothers, who were captured by American soldiers during the Spanish-American War.  Although her petition was denied, Clemencia proved in more ways than one that Filipinas were indeed a force to be reckoned with.

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