Concerned Quote by Stephen Kinzer

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

— Luis Gonzalez

What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and…

— Richard Rodriguez

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

“The damage United Fruit had done to Latin America was beyond imaginable and, even as the Cavendish shift occurred, beyond healing. The dictatorial governments…

— Dan Koeppel

Native American isn't blood. It is what is in the heart. The love for the land, the respect for it, those who inhabit it,…

— Anonymous

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want…

— Tracy Kidder

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

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 civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.

— Cree Summer

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

— Ezra Stiles

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

Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

— Anonymous