Quotes from Jose Marti

Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January; I give it to the true friend Who offers his frank hand to me. And to the cruel one whose blows Break the heart by which I live, Thistle nor thorn do I give: For him, too, I have a white rose.

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

To Educate is to Free.

El amor, madre, a la patria no es el amor ridículo a la tierra, ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas; Es el odio invencible a quien la oprime, es el rencor eterno a quien la ataca

A good soul on earth hurts very much.

Dicen que murió de frío. Yo sé que murió de amor.

Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy

Mientras mas honda la herida, Es mi canto mas hermoso. While more deeper is the wound The more beautiful the art.

Porque usted sabe, general, que mover un país, por pequeño que sea, es obra de gigantes. Y quien no se sienta gigante de amor, o de valor, o de pensamiento, o de paciencia, no debe emprenderla

La naturaleza es hermosa, que la vida es un deber, que la muerte no es fea, que nadie debe estar triste ni acobardarse mientras haya libros en las librerías, y luz en el cielo, y amigos, y madres.

i El deber de un hombre es estar allí, donde es mas útil!

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light.

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

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

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

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

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.