Jose Marti

We are free, but no to be evil

— Jose Marti

America is a land of creators and rebels.

— Jose Marti

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

— Jose Marti

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

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Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

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The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

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Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

— Jose Marti

“Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat . . . between the law of love and the law of hate.”

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I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

— Jose Marti

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

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If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so…

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Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

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Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

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Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they…

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“Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun…

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One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution…

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Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in…

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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs…

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“El amor, madre, a la patria no es el amor ridículo a la tierra, ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas;…

— José Martí

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly…

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Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their…

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Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the…

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Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

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No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

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This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

— Jose Marti

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

— Jose Marti

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

— Jose Marti

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

— Jose Marti

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

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Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí

— Jose Marti

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

— Jose Marti