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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.”

José Martí

“Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.”

José Martí

Letter (1890)

“Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat… between the law of love and the law of hate.”

José Martí

Letter (1881), as quoted in The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions : Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context (1993) by Irving Louis Horowit, p. 11

“Government must originate in the country. The spirit of government must be that of the country Its structure must conform to rules appropriate to the country. Good government is nothing more than the balance of the country's natural elements.”

José Martí

Our America (1881)

“Once I reveled in a destiny
like no other joy I'd known:
when the warden — reading
my death sentence — wept.”

José Martí

I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273
Simple Verses (1891)

“Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.”

José Martí

On El Poema de Niágara of Pérez Bonalde (1883)

“It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed, in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.”

José Martí

Our America (1881)

“Oh, what company good poets are!”

José Martí

Longfellow (1882)

“It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.”

José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

“In Cuba, there is no fear of a racial war. Men are more than whites, mulattos or Negroes. Cubans are more than whites, mulattos or Negroes. On the field of battle, dying for Cuba, the souls of whites and Negroes have risen together into the air.”

José Martí

My Race (1893)

“He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.”

José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

“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.”

José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

“Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.”

José Martí

Manifesto of Montecristi (1895)

“To govern well, one must see things as they are.”

José Martí

Our America (1881)

“Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.”

José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

“The merit and strength of a people are measured by their enthusiasm for freedom when the only rewards from it are anguish and martyrdom, the blood and ashes of exile, the sorrow of a house driven by the waves, and the shame of a useless life that lacks the foundation and peace of mind needed to do one's share of the common task.”

José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

“This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.”

José Martí

A Morir [To Die]

“Knowing is what counts. To know one's country and govern it with that knowledge is the only way to free it from tyranny.”

José Martí

Our America (1881)