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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Jose Marti
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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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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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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
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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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Oh, what company good poets are!
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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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The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
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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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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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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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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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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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A selfish man is a thief.
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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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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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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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No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
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The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
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Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
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Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
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Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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