Jose Marti

Activist

1853-01-28

Quotes by Jose Marti

• Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

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• Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

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• We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

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• To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

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• He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

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• A selfish man is a thief.

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• He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

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

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

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• Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

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• The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

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• Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

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• But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

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• A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

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• America is a land of creators and rebels.

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• 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 the least.

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• Men are like the stars: some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

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• Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

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• Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

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• 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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