"The Bible has been used as a way……" — Rigoberta Menchu
"The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor."
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Rigoberta Menchu
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18 Quotes by Rigoberta Menchu
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We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to…
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The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.
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Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth…
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I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through…
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This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.
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I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples...
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I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin…
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Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy,…
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We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against…
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I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There…
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To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother…
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I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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