Quotes by José Martí
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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
It is the duty of man to raise up man.
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
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.
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.
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
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