The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.George Bernard Shaw
“This world is not going to change unless we are willing to change ourselves.”
Indigenous rights activist · born 1959
K'iche' Maya activist from Guatemala who in 1992 became the first Indigenous person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Her testimony I, Rigoberta Menchú brought the struggles of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples to world attention.
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