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Quote by Rigoberta Menchú
I consider this Prize, not as a reward to me personally, but rather as one of the greatest conquests in the struggle for peace, for Human Rights and for the rights of the indigenous people.
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- NobelPrize.org — Rigoberta Menchú Tum’s Nobel Lecture
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