"Agoncillo is no believer in objectivity—at least not in the way names-and-dates historians define the term. He is refreshingly opinionated in a profession often too timid to provoke controversy, anger, or organized crusades. In a less liberal institution than the state university, that outspokenness might have cost him his job.

Shortly after The Revolt of the Masses was published, some attempted to associate it with what would later be called legal and parliamentary Communism. The academic witch-hunters failed, but they will surely try again—especially after reading Malolos, which, even more than The Revolt, reveals Agoncillo’s sweeping view of the Philippine Revolution as a struggle between the Haves and the Have-Nots." —Emilio Aguilar Cruz, critic, essayist, and editor, The Daily Mirror