Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.
Rigoberta Menchu... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.
Rigoberta MenchuThis 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 MenchuI wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples.
Rigoberta MenchuThe inaction of the international community towards Guatemala is injustifiable. The community should play an active role with concrete measures and sanctions imposed, as was the case in South Africa, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Cuba and Haiti. Why for us no? Why legalize death in one place and somewhere else no? This is clear in our memories.
Rigoberta Menchu