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

- Jose Marti

To change masters is not to be free.

- Jose Marti

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from t…

- Jose Marti

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

- Jose Marti

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

- 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 la…

- Jose Marti

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

- Jose Marti

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a sp…

- Jose Marti

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of gener…

- Jose Marti