Jose Marti Quotes

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.

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

To change masters is not to be free.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

To Educate is to Free.

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

"Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.