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1839–1903
Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla (born January 11, 1839 in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; died August 11, 1903 in Santo Domingo) was an educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, and advocate for Puerto Rican independence.
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A life devoted to good things has authority everywhere.
The Executions in Cuba (1873)
The hardest thing about revolutionary life is the relationships it imposes.
letter to Ramón Emeterio Betances (1874)
Outraged at having so many reasons to scorn so many people, I tell the naked truth. Perhaps it is the best policy for men and times like these.
letter to Ramón Emeterio Betances (1874)
To be worthy of the affection shown to me, my gratitude must not be spoken, nor even felt. It must be lived
The day I descend to favoritism, and do myself the injustice of supporting personal interests, I will have put my patriotism at the level of people, and the average height of five feet is too short for my ideas.
When will we leave the decency and self-denial and disinterest in fortune and life, of which we have given more proof than has been demanded of us? When will we have better occasion to die as good men and triumph as dignified men? When will we leave this dismal solitude that weakens us and in which we deeply harm ourselves by not doing all the good that we can for our country?
letter to Ramón Emeterio Betances (1874)
The more I love the cause I represent, the more I wish its enemies worthy of it, and far from finding an argument against justice, I discover an argument in favor of it, when the same people who acknowledge justice combat it out of interest, weakness, worry, or error fight it. There may be a noble sacrifice in defending an unjust cause: there isn’t a noble man who fails to condemn injustice.
The Executions in Cuba (1873)