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Rigoberta Menchú
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“There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.”
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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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“... unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.”
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“This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity because we needed to resist, we wanted to protect what governments have wanted to take away from us.”
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“We can only love a person who eats what we eat.”
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“What hurts Indians most is that our costumes are considered beautiful, but it's as if the person wearing it didn't exist.”
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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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“... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.”
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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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“... 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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“Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.”
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“We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.”
Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan/Mayan activist, Nobel winner
(1959)