Cuban - Activist | January 28, 1853 - May 19, 1895
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.
Jose Marti
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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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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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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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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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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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Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
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We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
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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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He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
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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.
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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.
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