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
Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light .
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
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.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
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 spontaneous and free being.
To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
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.