“Within the marae gates, one conversation comes up time and time again: What should we do about sexual abusers, including paedophiles and intimate partner abusers, who want to speak on the paepae tapu?” — Te Aniwaniwa Paterson.
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“The system was designed by individuals who believed in a specific version of New Zealand — where everyone was theoretically equal, yet the structures of equality were calibrated for only one culture.” — Mark Feary.
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“Like many of us, I learned to numb my sensitivity through alcohol and distraction. For years, I spoke about mauri as a concept, yet I had never truly felt its flow within me.” — Kingi Snelgar on healing.
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“Pākehā, we are not here to fight you. But we are here to fight the system that benefits you while breaking us. We are here to fight the structures that let our babies fill the prisons while yours fill the boardrooms.” — Heemi Mahauariki.
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“We don’t need to always be reacting to kāwanatanga. Our actions can be our own declaration of rangatiratanga.” — Tracy Karanui-Golf, Mahinarangi Maika, Jota Firmin, and Carwyn Jones.
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“Not everyone has the chance to create mana motuhake and tino rangatiratanga in their lives. But we’re lucky enough to be able to do that by creating a dinner and sharing our kōrero in a space that is otherwise pretty white.” — Chef Kasey Bird.
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“The death of Kiingi Tuheitia this week was sad enough. That it comes at this moment, in this of all years, at this politically charged time, makes it a particularly wretched blow.” — Jamie Tahana.
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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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“What Christopher Luxon confronts now, as have all the politicians before him who’ve capitalised on seasonal bouts of Māori hysteria, is a generation of Māori strong in their identity, who won’t let progress slip without a fight.” — Jamie Tahana.
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“When I think about whether we can sustain a future here, I know we just have to, because a lot of our whānau have got nowhere else to go.” — Lillian Te Hau-Ward, who leads the local response and Civil Defence team in Tokomaru Bay.
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“Just as there is no transfer of tino rangatiratanga, there’s nothing in Te Tiriti that would prevent hapū Māori from controlling their own borders, from directing their own foreign policy, or from entering into new international treaties.” — Dr Arama Rata.
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Preserve the rangatiratanga of the mind, writes Rangi Kemara. Without it, you’re a slave.
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