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Jose Marti
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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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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.
Jose Marti
In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.
Jose Marti
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
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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.
Jose Marti
Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
Jose Marti
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.
Jose Marti
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Jose Marti
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.
Jose Marti
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti
Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
Jose Marti
To beautify life is to give it an object.
Jose Marti
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.
Jose Marti
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti
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.
Jose Marti
Oh, what company good poets are!
Jose Marti
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
Jose Marti
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.
Jose Marti
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
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