Discrimination Quote by Rigoberta Menchu

The inaction of the international community towards Guatemala is injustifiable. The community should play an active role with concrete measures and sanctions imposed, as…

— 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

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support…

— Stephen Kinzer

It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national…

— Rigoberta Menchu

There was a really monstrous and almost literal genocide in the Mayan area, specifically under Ríos Montt. By now it has been recognized somewhat…

— Noam Chomsky

“Every once in a while, however, the subordinates of this world contest their fates. They protest their conditions, write letters and petitions, join movements,…

— Corey Robin

In the case of my country, Guatemala, 65% of the inhabitants are indigenous. The constitution speaks of protection for the indigenous. Who authorized a…

— Rigoberta Menchu

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

— Luis Gonzalez

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation…

— Maria Julia Hernandez

Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington

— Otto Perez Molina

There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When…

— Francisco Goldman

That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal with human…

— Nikki Haley