Jose Marti
Jose Marti
José Julián Martí Pérezis a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life, he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, a Freemason, a political theorist, and supporter of Henry George's economic reforms known as Georgism. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol for Cuba's bid for independence against Spain in the 19th century, and is referred to as the "Apostle...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth28 January 1853
CountryCuba
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Oh, what company good poets are!
A selfish man is a thief.
To Educate is to Free.
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.
In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
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.
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
The only way to be totally free is through education.