Rigoberta Menchu Quotes - Page 2

• 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

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• No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

  Rigoberta Menchú

  Justice, Democracy, Wages

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• I think that if one's role doesn't correspond to what one says, if one's life doesn't correspond to what one preaches, if one is not true to one's people, someone else will come as a substitute.

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  Thinking, People, Roles

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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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.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  America, Example, Guatemala

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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• Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  World, Should, Impunity

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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• I am deeply gladdened that 1993 has been delcared the International Year of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. It is the first year we have had in five hundred years. This is thanks to the struggle of many untitled, unnamed indigenous brothers who, without understanding international law, patiently walked the corridors asking for some time. Thanks to them this international year has been declared.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  Brother, Struggle, Years

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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• Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  Book, Secret, Matter

  Rigoberta Menchú (2009). “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)”, p.289, Verso Books

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• ... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.

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  Christian, Reality, Church

  Rigoberta Menchú (2009). “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)”, p.157, Verso Books

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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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  Grief, People, Guatemala

  Rigoberta Menchú (2009). “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)”, p.278, Verso Books

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• The inaction of the international community towards Guatemala is injustifiable. The community should play an active role with concrete measures and sanctions imposed, as was the case in South Africa, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Cuba and Haiti. Why for us no? Why legalize death in one place and somewhere else no? This is clear in our memories.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  Memories, Iraq, Somewhere Else

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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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 those that celebrate it.

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  Thinking, Expression, Occupation

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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• 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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  Justice, Diversity, Enlightenment

  Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos (1984). “I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala”, p.245, Verso

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• ... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

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  Real, Together We Can, People

  Rigoberta Menchú (2009). “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)”, p.289, Verso Books

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• We can only love a person who eats what we eat.

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  Persons, Only Love

  Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos (1984). “I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala”, p.203, Verso

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• The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.

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  Issues, Rights, Guatemala

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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• 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.

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  Country, Writing, School

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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