Menchu Quotes
Collection of top 28 famous quotes about Menchu
Menchu Quotes & Sayings
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I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"
— Rigoberta Menchu
For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
I was happy where I was floating.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
— Italo Calvino
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 Menchu
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 Menchu
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
— John Cheever
To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.
— Spencer W. Kimball
When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.
— Rigoberta Menchu
Together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.
— Rigoberta Menchu
I've come to appreciate other people's talents.
— Howard Stern
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
— Rigoberta Menchu
The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.
— Rigoberta Menchu
Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.
— John R.W. Stott
We can only love a person who eats what we eat.
— Rigoberta Menchu
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.
— Rigoberta Menchu
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 Menchu
Unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.
— Rigoberta Menchu
Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.
— Rigoberta Menchu
Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
— Germaine Greer
This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.
— Rigoberta Menchu
There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
— Rigoberta Menchu