“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

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Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader 1853–1895

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