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To Educate is to Free.

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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
Activist
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Havana
Cuba
Jose Marti
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Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!
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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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Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
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Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
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We are free, but no to be evil
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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.
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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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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
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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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Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
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The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
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I have lived in the monster and I know its insides and my sling is the sling of David.
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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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It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.
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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
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Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
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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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