Jose Marti Quotes
There can be no racial animosity, because there are no races.
It is hard to tell what was the basis for Marti’s famous statement. We know now from modern DNA analysis and the human genome that we are all a single race but that was not known then. Many contemporaries thought he was speaking metaphorically, spiritually or religiously. In the view of Christ, there was only man. However, this was one of the first statements of this truth which at the time was not believed by almost everyone.
Jose Marti, 1853-1895, Cuban Revolutionary Leader, “Nuestra América" (1881), La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York, January 1, 1891
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José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country. He was also an important figure in Latin American literature. He was very politically active and is considered an important revolutionary philosopher and political theorist. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol of Cuba's bid for independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th century, and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence". From adolescence, he dedicated his life to the promotion of liberty, political independence for Cuba, and intellectual independence for all Spanish Americans; his death was used as a cry for Cuban independence from Spain by both the Cuban revolutionaries and those Cubans previously reluctant to start a revolt.
