Jose Marti Quotes

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Jose Marti

Profession : Activist

Birth : January 28, 1853

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

Jose Marti

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.

Jose Marti

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Jose Marti

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.

Jose Marti

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

Jose Marti

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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One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

Jose Marti

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Jose Marti

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

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

Jose Marti