“We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.”

— José Martí

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Source: Nuestra America y Otros Escritos
Context: We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

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Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader 1853–1895

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