Cuban - Activist | January 28, 1853 - May 19, 1895
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti
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Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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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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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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A selfish man is a thief.
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To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
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