# José Martí's most famous quotes

From Simple Verses ('I grow a white rose') to Our America ('Trenches of ideas are worth more than trenches of stone'): Martí's most quoted lines, with their source where known.

- 70 votes · 13 items
- Nov 5, 2019 · monica_viajera
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## Top 13

1. **There is no race hatred, because there are no races.** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Our America (1891).
2. **My verse is a wounded stag seeking shelter in the hills.** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Simple Verses (1891), V.
3. **I grow a white rose in June as in January for the sincere friend who gives me his honest hand.** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Simple Verses (1891), XXXIX.
4. **Our wine is made of plantain; and if it turns sour, it is our wine!** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Our America (1891).
5. **Trenches of ideas are worth more than trenches of stone.** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Our America (1891).
6. **He who stirs up and spreads opposition and hatred between races sins against Humanity.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 'My Race' (1893).
7. **Rights are taken, not asked for; seized, not begged for.** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Collected in anthologies.
8. **To govern, in a new nation, means to create.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Our America (1891).
9. **Words are not made to cover the truth, but to tell it.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Collected in anthologies.
10. **It is the hour of reckoning and of marching together, and we must walk in close ranks, like the silver in the roots of the Andes.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Our America (1891).
11. **A grain of poetry is enough to perfume a whole century.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Collected in anthologies.
12. **Better a minute on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Attributed; also credited to others.
13. **Every man has two mothers: nature and circumstance.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Collected in anthologies.

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