José Martí · Politics
Martí’s vision of the Cuban republic he was fighting to build - one founded not on racial hierarchy or narrow faction but on the ‘full dignity of man’ for every citizen regardless of color, summed up in the formula he asked Cubans to fly beside their flag’s star: ‘con todos, y para el bien de todos.’
You learned that Martí made racial unity a founding condition of Cuban independence rather than an afterthought, argued in ‘Mi raza’ that speaking of ‘my race’ - whether by a white person or a Black person - was a redundant and dangerous error because there is only one human race with a Cuban h…
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