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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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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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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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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
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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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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
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Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
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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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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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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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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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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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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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The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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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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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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The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
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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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