The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a fact, as is sophisticated militarization. These have been the most significant ingredients in the silent war.

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

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.

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.

I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they have to begin to understand one another.

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