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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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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
Activist
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Journalist
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Revolutionary
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Havana
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