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
To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
To beautify life is to give it an object.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
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.
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.
Charm is a product of the unexpected.
No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
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.
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.