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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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Havana
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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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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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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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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
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To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
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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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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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Strength comes from waiting.
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We are free, but no to be evil
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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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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But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
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Day and night I always dream with open eyes. - José Martí
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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy life is secure for those who obey the law of work.
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Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.
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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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Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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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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