I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share
“Este mundo no va a cambiar a menos que estemos dispuestos a cambiar nosotros mismos” — Rigoberta Menchú Copy Share Image
For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
