Epeli Ganilau citations
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Epeli Ganilau est homme politique fidjien.

✵ 10. octobre 1951

Epeli Ganilau: 45 citations0 J'aime

Epeli Ganilau: Citations en anglais

“Touted as a legislation that will promote unity, it has done exactly the opposite. It has divided this country, apparently and sadly along racial lines. (on the government's controversial Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill, which Ganilau opposes).”

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Speech at the launch of the NAP campaign for the 2006 election, Rakiraki, 6 August 2005

“No nation would refuse to fight an invading army because some expert argued it would be cheaper to invest in defenses against future invasions. It is not a matter of prioritising lives now over lives tomorrow.”

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Address to the Pan Pacific HIV/AIDS Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, October 2005

“Whether some people like it or not, Fiji is already a multiracial society. We have different races, but that does not mean we should only work for the good of our own race. We have to truly understand one another, learn each other’s languages, and truly work together. There is huge potential in Fiji, and we would be amazed to see what we will achieve, if we work together.”

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NAPF convention, 17 December 2005

“This is what the National Alliance stands for: To respect all people, regardless of ethnicity, gender and religion, to uphold godly principles and moral values and to respect the rule of law.”

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Remarks made at the launch of the Navua branch of the NAP, 4 June 2005

“For too long, we have allowed fear to dictate our politics and suspicions, to shape how we perceive other communities.”

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Excerpts from a speech at the launch of the NAP, 8 April 2005

“The danger … is that unscrupulous politicians have continued to preach their racially divided visions for Fiji.”

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Speech at the launch of the NAP campaign for the 2006 election, Rakiraki, 6 August 2005

“As a country, we have not started to see how much we can achieve as a nation and we will not have any idea of our strength if we continue to deny ourselves the opportunity to come together as one people. We have not been able to pool the resources and talent of our people and exploit them for our common good. It will continue to evade us if we continue to stress our ethnicity and group differences.”

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Guest speech to the conference of the Fiji Labour Party, Lautoka, 30 July 2005

“As a loving religious and caring nation the spiritual dimension of our resolve is to exercise restraint, goodwill, tolerance and understanding with all races in Fiji.”

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New Year message, 02 January 2006

“I believe we must not fight fire with fire, we will be burnt. The only way in which we can stop these extremist elements from destroying the nation is by ensuring that they are not given an opportunity to be in a position of controlling the destiny of the nation.”

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Remarks made at the launch of the Navua branch of the NAP, 4 June 2005

“If this is neglected, any effort at development will fail, because factions will emerge with their own form of protest that would drive underground anyone seeking help. This will endanger whatever development has taken place.”

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Address to the Pan Pacific HIV/AIDS Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, October 2005

“Government seems unaware that the more race-based measures it tries to put in place the faster that time bomb burns to detonation point.”

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Guest speech to the conference of the Fiji Labour Party, Lautoka, 30 July 2005

“Race is a fact of life and is not a problem unless people make it out to be so.”

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2003
Miscellaneous quotes

“One (path) is confrontation and the politics of exclusion. The other is the path of cooperation and trust. We either embrace the concept of multiracialism or we go down the path of racial vilification and alienation.”

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NAPF convention, 17 December 2005

“To share responsibility with the people of the province should be, in my view, the proudest bequest of a chief to his people.”

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Views on the chiefly system

“It does not say much about the credibility of the Prime Minister for him to be saying publicly that the Christian churches support the bill after these deliberate acts of deception.”

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In response to Mataca's claim that Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase had misled a delegation of church leaders as to the true contents of the government's Reconciliation and Unity Bill, which Mataca and Ganilau both oppose
Reaction to comments from Archbishop Petero Mataca, 23 June 2005

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