Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.

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.

For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember those that celebrate it.

The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.

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

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

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