All Jose Marti Quotes
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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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 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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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.
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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 genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
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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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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
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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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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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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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