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Top 15 Rigoberta Menchú Quotes (2025 Update)

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.”

1. “Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people’s hearts.”

2. “I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people’s hearts.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “This world’s not going to change unless we’re willing to change ourselves.”

3. “This world’s not going to change unless we’re willing to change ourselves.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.”

5. “The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.”

6. “I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “We can only love a person who eats what we eat.”

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

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “I would get up in the morning and I would say, “How am I going to bother them today?””

8. “I would get up in the morning and I would say, “How am I going to bother them today?””

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “I wasn’t the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it’s not my grief alone, it’s the grief of a whole people.”

9. “I wasn’t the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it’s not my grief alone, it’s the grief of a whole people.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.”

10. “There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.”

11. “Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.”

12. “We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples...”

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

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.”

14. “We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life.”

15. “No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can help others; but if you’re not well, then go look for somebody who is in a good place who can help you.”

17. “To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can help others; but if you’re not well, then go look for somebody who is in a good place who can help you.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Quote: “The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.”

18. “The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.”

— Rigoberta Menchú

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