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.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.
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.
To beautify life is to give it an object.
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.
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Charm is a product of the unexpected.