“One of the lasting legacies of Tokelau’s relationship with New Zealand is its loss of population and capacity, through both the resettlement and Tokelau scholarship schemes.” — Melanie Puka Bean.
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“Our collective future in this country depends on our willingness to show up — not as obedient subjects of the Crown, but as those who refuse to participate in the settler colonial project of disenfranchising Māori on their own whenua.” — Ara Alam-Simmons.
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“It’s a mythical kindness because it’s always conditional on us being submissive. As soon as we stop submitting to Crown authority, that kindness, as we are seeing now, disappears.” — Tina Ngata.
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“It was clear that we had reached a point where our participation would amount to complicity in the oppression of our people.” — Tina Ngata on why the tangata whenua caucus walked away from the national anti-racism plan.
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“For many Pākehā, me included, our time here began on land that had been stolen (sorry, ‘confiscated’) from the people to whom it belonged.” — Professor Richard Shaw.
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“Words like ‘traditional’ are used to inflict violence against us.” — Dr Emalani Case.
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“It’s precisely in these moments of panic that a country’s inequities are most visible.” — Patrick Thomsen
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