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People can only be free if they are truly educated. — Jose Marti

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. — Jose Marti

Mientras mas honda la herida,
Es mi canto mas hermoso.
While more deeper is the wound
The more beautiful the art. — Jose Marti

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains. — Jose Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. — Jose Marti

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. — Jose Marti

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world. — Jose Marti

In truth, men speak too much of danger. — Jose Marti

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. — Jose Marti

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief. — Jose Marti

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. — Jose Marti

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
— Jose Marti

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop — Jose Marti

God is weeping. And how the people weep when they make God weep! — Jose Marti

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. — Jose Marti

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. — Jose Marti

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. — Jose Marti

It is the duty of man to raise up man. — Jose Marti

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical. — Jose Marti

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. — Jose Marti

To change masters is not to be free. — Jose Marti

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. — Jose Marti

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. — Jose Marti

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. — Jose Marti

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. — Jose Marti

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. — Jose Marti

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others. — Jose Marti

The only way to be totally free is through education. — Jose Marti

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women. — Jose Marti

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. — Jose Marti

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself. — Jose Marti

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. — Jose Marti

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. — Jose Marti

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. — Jose Marti

Sane love, is not love — Jose Marti

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him. — Jose Marti

Literature is the most beautiful of countries — Jose Marti

Charm is a product of the unexpected. — Jose Marti

My poems please the brave : My poems, short and sincere , Have the force of steel Which forges swords . — 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

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. — 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

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly. — Jose Marti

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. — 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

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. — Jose Marti

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. — Jose Marti

A good soul on earth hurts very much. — Jose Marti

The truthe wakes up once and never dies. — Jose Marti

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine. — Jose Marti

The first duty of a man is to think for himself — Jose Marti

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light . — Jose Marti

To Educate is to Free. — Jose Marti

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom. — Jose Marti

A selfish man is a thief. — Jose Marti

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us. — Jose Marti

Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty. — Jose Marti

I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David . — Jose Marti

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. — Jose Marti

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. — Jose Marti

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. — Jose Marti

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit. — Jose Marti

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro. — Jose Marti

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom. — Jose Marti

America is a land of creators and rebels. — Jose Marti

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. — Jose Marti

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. — Jose Marti

Strength comes from waiting. — Jose Marti

To beautify life is to give it an object. — Jose Marti

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft. — Jose Marti

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity. — Jose Marti

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men. — Jose Marti

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. — Jose Marti

Oh, what company good poets are! — Jose Marti

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. — Jose Marti

Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat ... between the law of love and the law of hate. — Jose Marti

Day and night I always dream with open eyes. — Jose Marti

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water. — Jose Marti

We are free, but no to be evil — Jose Marti