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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.

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

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

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Our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.

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What hurts Indians most is that our costumes are considered beautiful, but it's as if the person wearing it didn't exist.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú
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Born: January 9, 1959 (age 66)
Bio: Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' political activist from Guatemala.
Known for:
  1. I, Rigoberta Menchú (1983)
  2. The Honey Jar (2006)
  3. Crossing borders (1998)
  4. The Secret Legacy (2008)
  5. The Girl from Chimel (2003)

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