"EDSA Began with Ninoy" Statue (Quezon City)

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Location: People Power Monument, Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) corner White Plains Avenue, Barangay Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

This is the inscription on “Edsa Began with Ninoy” marker:
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Spirit of EDSA Foundation, Inc. Ninoy Aquino Movement (NAM)

“EDSA BEGAN WITH NINOY”

Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino, Jr.’s martyrdom sparked the Filipino nation’s awakening out of the quagmire of political apathy, which led to the birth of People-Power laboring passionately for the cause of Freedom and Democracy which culminated at EDSA in 1986.

(Commissioned by the Ninoy Aquino Movement led by Heherson Alvarez; Sculptured by Tomas Concepcion on September 1983; Unveiled and Blessed by Rev. Fr. Joseph O’Hare, S.J., President, Fordham University at the U.N. Plaza, New York City, U.S.A.; Brought to Manila, accompanied by Dr. Alejandro Roces on August 1984; Installed at the Mondragon Building, Makati City, October 1984; Later donated by Mr. Jose Antonio Gonzales to the City of Manila, August 1995; Mayor Lito Atienza subsequently donated to the Spirit of EDSA Foundation, Inc. through Founding Chairman, Christopher L. Carrion on February 2004; Installed at the Historic site of the People Power Monument and unveiled by Her Excellency PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, former presidents President Corazon C. Aquino and Fidel V. Ramos, and other special guests on February 25, 2005, the 19th EDSA Anniversaey.)