Culture Quote by Rigoberta Menchu

“Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.”

Rigoberta Menchu

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In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

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

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

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For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember…

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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.

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

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Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are…

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