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
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light .
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.
It is the duty of man to raise up man.
I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David .
This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.
Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.