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

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

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

... 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.

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.

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.

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