4 Ratu Epeli Ganilau Quotes on Race

Ratu Epeli Ganilau quotes on race

1. 'Race is a fact of life and is not a problem unless people make it out to be so.' (2003)

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

24. '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).

40. '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.'