I, Rigoberta Menchú Quotes

“It doesn't mean that I reject everything because I know that things come in their time and when you do things calmly, they work much better.”
― Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

“into the enemy’s hands alive. That was what I dreaded. No, what hurt me very, very much was the lives of so many compañeros, fine compañeros, who weren’t ambitious for power in the least. All they wanted was enough to live on, enough to meet their people’s needs. This reinforced my decision to fight.”
― Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

“My father used to say: “We don’t do this so that our neighbours can say, what good people they are! We do it for our ancestors”
― Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

“I think that unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.”
― Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala