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I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"
— Rigoberta Menchu
It doesn't mean that I reject everything because I know that things come in their time and when you do things calmly, they work much better.
— Rigoberta Menchu
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
— Rigoberta Menchu
When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.
— Rigoberta Menchu
Together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.
— Rigoberta Menchu
I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples ...
— Rigoberta Menchu
There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
— Rigoberta Menchu
This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.
— Rigoberta Menchu
Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.
— Rigoberta Menchu
Unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.
— Rigoberta Menchu
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.
— Rigoberta Menchu
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.
— Rigoberta Menchu
We can only love a person who eats what we eat.
— Rigoberta Menchu
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
— Rigoberta Menchu
The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.
— Rigoberta Menchu