“The difficulty with starting from the institutions we have now and trying to think how they could be tweaked to better reflect Māori aspirations is that our current institutions are based on a particular way of understanding power.” — Carwyn Jones.
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“No matter how powerful rangatira might presume to be, they never possessed the authority nor had the right to give away or subordinate the mana of the collective.” — Moana Jackson.
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“What I hope we might do is not just revisit reports, but also look back into the history of this land, where many of the seeds of what might replace prisons are already present.” — Moana Jackson.
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“If we can think about the idea of home as a place to which we can all belong, as a place upon which we can all stand, then the idea of housing falls more easily into place.” — Moana Jackson.
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“I’ve been fortunate to contribute to big systemic change, but it’s the little acts, the personal struggles on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute basis that I find both potent and fascinating.” — Aroha Gilling.
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Moana Jackson was “our Māori Yoda”. “He brought clarity to our struggle and wisdom to our kitchen tables, influencing generations of policymakers and jurists alike.” — Moana Maniapoto on the making of ‘Portrait of a Quiet Revolutionary’, made with the support of NZ On Air.
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“I have never met a more inspiring person with a greater influence over so many of us for the good. Let’s hope that we can now be worthy of his generous challenges to us.” — Catherine Delahunty.
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“Moana taught me, a young Chinese activist, the meaning of solidarity and what it means to be living on this land as tangata Tiriti who respect tangata whenua.” — Mengzhu Fu.
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“Moana was an idealist who believed in the transformative potential of sound ideas. If the ideas were right, the practical issues would resolve themselves in time.” — Justice Sir Joe Williams.
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“If there’s anything that has marked the survival of our people and the flourishing of our people, it’s that we have been brave.” — Moana Jackson.
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“If he hadn’t taken on those fights, he could quite easily have buffered himself against the health issues. But he didn’t. He didn’t swerve. He didn’t flinch. He just kept on going.” — Ngahiwi Tomoana.
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“He was tenacious and yet so tolerant; formidable in his intellect, yet always wanting to make space for the ordinary people to contribute.” — Dame Tariana Turia.
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“Vaccination is a necessary protection against Covid, but dealing with a living history and the ongoing discriminatory actions of the Crown requires more than just an injection in the arm.” — Moana Jackson.
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The recent attacks on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) are not just ill-informed — they’re “dangerously provocative”, writes Moana Jackson.
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“Just as colonisation began in the mind — as a set of ideas based on racial and cultural superiority — so must decolonisation begin with a mental deconstruction of those ideas.” — Kennedy Warne.
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“In this country, the potential exists to develop a different and unique decolonisation discourse because there are already stories which express the power of a different truth.” — Moana Jackson, from ‘Imagining Decolonisation’.
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“It’s difficult to escape the conclusion that our cannabis laws have been yet another tool of colonial oppression.” — Tim McKinnel on the upcoming cannabis referendum.
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Moana Jackson on whether Bob Jones’s NBR column, as well as various other examples of his writing and public statements, express views that could be regarded as “racist or amount to hate speech”.
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“The building of new relationships and the telling of new stories begins with the identification and ‘un-telling’ of colonisation’s past and present lies.” — Moana Jackson.
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“The so-called humanitarian colonisers who came here in the 19th century did not necessarily hate Maori. Indeed, they sometimes professed to love us and simply wanted to dispossess us in a sensitive and caring way.”
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“The bliss of freedom enjoyed by those who have power should never mean the right to cause pain to those who are comparatively powerless.”
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So once again racism has been in the news. In the last few months, the numerous examples that have...
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The recent election had its usual predictable talk about law and order — and that talk ranged from...
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It always requires a certain courage to speak the unspeakable. The increasing number of Māori men...
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