José Martí Quotes

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

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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.

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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

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We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

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Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen.

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Mientras mas honda la herida,
Es mi canto mas hermoso.

While more deeper is the wound
The more beautiful the art.

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