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
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.
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.
Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.
A selfish man is a thief.
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.