Perhaps the enemies of ...

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.
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 Jose Marti

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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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It is the duty of man to raise up man.
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.
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I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
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