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José Martí on Freedom

1853–1895 Cuba

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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

Liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together. You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: José Martí (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.