Mau Piailug quotes
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“If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.”
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“To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember.”
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“I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.”
-- Mau PiailugSource : "Piailug's greatest lesson is that we are a single people". "Honolulu Star-Advertiser" Newspaper, July 29, 2010.
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“I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.”
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“As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.”
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“To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.”
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“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.”
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“You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.”
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