"Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones."

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Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

— Rigoberta Menchu