FILIPINOS have been using the phrases 'never forget' and 'never again' more frequently nowadays, not only to express disapproval of martial law-like proposals and the attempts of the Marcoses to reclaim Malacañang.

The phrases reverberate in protest rallies, press conferences and other public activities, mostly by activists and the political opposition. We've now been hearing it in calls to condemn and reject the killing of drug suspects under the Duterte administration's war on drugs as well as in the efforts to change the 1987 Constitution.