7 Ratu Epeli Ganilau Quotes on Unity

Ratu Epeli Ganilau quotes on unity

7. 'Now is not the time to be simply paying lip-service, it is time to stand up and be counted, to stand together and not to be swayed or moved from our path towards true unity, and the peace and security that we aspire to achieve.'

18. 'We need to marshal and direct our energy toward building this nation into a peaceful, prosperous and proud bequest to our children.'

19. '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.'

20. 'As a people, we have not been able to chart a clear map toward a common destiny. We will not be able to do this if our leaders continue to promote sectional and separate development.'

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).

38. 'We must learn that all religions proclaim the unity of divinity and preach the cultivation of universal love without regards to caste, creed, country or colour.'

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.'