José Martí lived for much of his life as an exile in the United States. Here is what he said about the US: I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair – and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51