Jose Marti

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

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

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

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

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

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

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

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

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.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

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.

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.

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

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

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