For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember those that celebrate it. — 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… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“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
