More from Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara

  1. (Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): 'They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitu…
  2. 'I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside ... but I will never ever again come back.'
  3. It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our …
  4. 'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'
  5. But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of…
  6. 'I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collap…
  7. From where I stand, I do not see the lost people of the South Seas, the defeated and the despairing, shrunken shadows of those who went bef…
  8. 'The Pacific Way ... is not a thing or state; it is the working out of a process. (But) ... the most important things in life are the most …

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