We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Jose MartiRead
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.
Interpretation
The desire for freedom is inherent in human nature, often unconsciously guiding our actions and choices.
This quote by Jose Marti highlights the fundamental human longing for liberty, suggesting that even if individuals are unaware of their love for freedom, this intrinsic desire influences their decisions. It implies that people instinctively seek environments where freedom exists and away from oppression, emphasizing that liberty is a crucial component of the human experience and wellbeing.
In practice
In a speech about civil rights and personal freedom.
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
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.
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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