"In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."

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Source : Kamisese Mara (1977). “Selected speeches”

Kamisese Mara

#Order Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Tolerance Quotes

“We must break out of this mindset in Australia that we are a small nation on the other side of the world from the main, great Western nations. Australia is the twelfth largest economy in the world. We are a not insignificant player in commerce, in geopolitics and we must be in culture as well and we are.”

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“For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.”
“I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.”
“The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.”
“I think the level of criticism you're under is never healthy. I think that's why lots of people in Hollywood end up in rehab. There are the ups and downs. I was never a fan of the attention.”
“The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.”
“Some have a difficult time with feminism. 'Why not a human liberation movement?' they say. The answer is that the power differences between the sexes, races, and classes are still so extreme that invoking humanism, at this time, dangerously denies that fact.”
“My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.”

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