Prize Quotes by Rigoberta Menchu

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

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

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

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

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

— Rigoberta Menchu

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

“Este mundo no va a cambiar a menos que estemos dispuestos a cambiar nosotros mismos”

— Rigoberta Menchú

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

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

... 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

There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

— Rigoberta Menchu

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