Jose Julian Marti Perez Quotes

• The first duty of a man is to think for himself.

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• I am a sincere man from where the palm tree grows; and before I die I want to loose my verses from my heart.

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• The conquistadores stole a page from the Universe! Those were the good people who called the Milky Way ‘the souls’ path’; for them the Universe was full of the Great Spirit, within which all light was contained.

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• The first duty of a man is to think for himself.

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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.

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• A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

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

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• A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

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• There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

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• 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.

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• To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

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• To give one’s life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

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• To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

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• The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

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• The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

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• The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

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• The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

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

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• Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

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• Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

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Jose Julian Marti Perez (56)

Birth:	28th January, 1853
Death:	18th May, 1895
Nationality:	Cuban
Profession:	Activist, Essayist, Journalist, Philosopher, Poet, Professor, Publisher, Theorist, Translator

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