... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.