José Martí on Liberty
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“Liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.”
“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”
“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.”
“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.”