137 Quotes by Jose Marti

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

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.

To change masters is not to be free.

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

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

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.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

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.