Rigoberta Menchu Quotes About Racism

• No somos mitos del pasado, ruinas en la selva o zoológicos. Somos personas y queremos que se nos respete, no ser víctimas de la intolerancia y el racismo.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  Zoos, Past, Racism

• I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  Respect, Xenophobia, Believe

• Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  Zoos, Latin, Past

• Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being head of state. It has reached the point that 99% of the indigenous women have not gone to school. The indigenous are condemned to live in a situation designed to exterminate them. They receive a pittance of a salary, they neither speak nor write the language, politics dictates their situation. Is this slavery? I don't know what it's called. It is not the same as before because we are in modern times.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  Country, Writing, School

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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