My Favorite Filipino Hero

Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864 — May 13, 1903)

Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864 — May 13, 1903) was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as the first  Prime Minister of the Philippines upon the establishment of the First Philippine Republic.
Two of his works, El Verdadero Decalogo (The True Decalogue, June 24, 1898), and Programa Constitucional dela Republica Filipina (The Constitutional Program of the Philippine Republic, 1898) became instrumental in the drafting of what would eventually be known as the Malolos Constition.
Mabini performed all his revolutionary and governmental activities despite having lost the use of both his legs to Polio shortly before the Philippine Revolution of 1896.

Mabini's role in Philippine history saw him confronting first Spanish Colonial Rule in the opening days of the Philippine Revolution, and then American colonial rule in the days of the Philippine–American War. The latter saw Mabini captured and exiled to Guam by American colonial authorities, allowed to return only two months before his eventual death in May, 1903.

Mabini is my favorite because he has a highly educated young man who, unfortunately, is paralyzed. He has a classical education, a very flexible, imaginative mind, and Mabini's views were more comprehensive than any of the Filipino Hero'es that I read there stories base in History. His idea was a dream of a Malay confederacy. He is a dreamy man, but a very firm character and of very high accomplishments. As said, unfortunately, he is paralyzed. Despite of his condition still have hope to use his brain to help his countrymen.