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Duran vs. Santos [DISSENTING OPINION, PERFECTO, J.]

PIO DURAN, petitioner, vs. SALVADOR ABAD SANTOS, Judge of People's Court, respondent.

G.R. No. L-99 | 1945-11-16

DISSENTING
 
PERFECTO, J.,
 
The action taken by the majority will surely dampen the enthusiasm, the ecstatic delight, the rapturous exultation with which all the generous spirits the world over received the news of the end of the war on September 2. 1945, not because of the Allied victory in the global struggle, but because the great principles of human freedom, the sublime tenets upon which the worth of each individual, man, woman, and child, is established, the elemental ideas "universally recognized as underlying the basic meaning of mankind's dignity, once again, triumphed against the forces of darkness.
 
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