Antonio Maceo: A Moral Hero
Matthew Reich "My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I shall not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me. To the rest of you, then, I say, 'Go home,"- Achilles, in The Iliad by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler Statue of Achilles in Hyde Park, London, from researchgate.net Who is Antonio Maceo? Antonio Maceo was a general in the Cuban revolutionary army and fought against the unjust oppression of his home, Cuba, by the Spanish. He became a powerful leader, fighting for autonomy, not for control or conquest, maintaining a moral and ethical stance.…