Jose Marti Quotes

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• Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.
• Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
• A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
• The only way to be totally free is through education.
• The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.
• There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
• Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
• Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the…
• It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
• Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
• Oh, what company good poets are!
• Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
• People can only be free if they are truly educated.
• Literature is the most beautiful of countries
• Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.
• Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.
• America is a land of creators and rebels.
• The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget…
• Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
• Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

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