Top 42 Quotes About Rigoberta Menchu

#1. I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples ...

Rigoberta Menchu

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#2. To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can help others; but if you're not well, then go look for somebody who is in a good place who can help you.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#3. There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#4. 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

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#5. When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#6. The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#7. The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits of science and technology, although they represented an important basis for this development.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#8. It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#9. I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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#10. 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.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#11. I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#12. American men had made do for so long with smiling chorines and sweet titillation in their sleazy magazine that no one realised how hungry they were to have their sex mixed with terror and blood.

Gerard Jones

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#13. The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#14. While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

Kris Carr

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#15. 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

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#16. What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#17. Only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#18. 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 Menchu

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#19. I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#20. Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

Rigoberta Menchu

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

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#22. 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 Menchu

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#23. I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

Chuck Daly

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#24. I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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#25. 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

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#26. Unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#27. I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"

Rigoberta Menchu

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#28. I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

William Shakespeare

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#29. No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

Orville Wright

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#30. You should give your all to God, and then worry no more about what he may do with what is his.

Meister Eckhart

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#31. Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#32. Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

Linwood Barclay

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#33. I distrust those people who knew so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan D. Anthony

John Ortberg

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#34. ObamaCare is to health care as a fart is to an elevator.

Greg Gutfeld

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

Rigoberta Menchu

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#36. 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

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#37. 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 Menchu

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#38. But here I was,quasi-boyfriend saying he wanted to take me on an actual date, and I was just staring at him impassively, like a horse watching a mime pretending to walk against the wind.

Maureen Johnson

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#39. This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#40. 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.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#41. We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#42. I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about [the streak].

Chase Utley

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