Rigoberta Menchu Quotes
The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.
Menchú, Rigoberta. Crossing Borders. Translated and edited by Ann Wright, Verso, 1998, p. 64.
Islamic modernists like him are many among the educated Muslims but their views are often drowned out by the violence and extremist statements of the fundamentalists.
This was the first time that the term “human rights” was used. FDR, a personal friend of Wells, then used the term in his Four Freedoms speech and thus was the first politician to use the term. Later Mrs. Roosevelt was instrumental in using the phrase in the United nations “Declaration of Human Rights” and enshrined the term in the English and world language.
Although not particularly noticed at the time, FDR was the first person to use the term, “Human Rights” which is today in all our vocabularies.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally.
