José Martí quotes

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. (José Martí)
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. View quote
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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist. View quote
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. View quote
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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. View quote
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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. View quote
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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. View quote
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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. (José Martí)
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. View quote
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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. View quote
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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. View quote
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Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. View quote
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We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. View quote
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In truth, men speak too much of danger. View quote
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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world. View quote
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. View quote
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The motherland is an altar, not a platform. View quote
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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. (José Martí)
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. View quote
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Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath. View quote
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My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords. View quote
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A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. View quote
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