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

The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our people, those responsible for the plundering of the third world. Silence is also part of repression.

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

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

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

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

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.