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Moana Jackson Quotes

b. 1959 New Zealand

Moana Jackson (10 October 1945 – 31 March 2022) was a New Zealand lawyer specialising in constitutional law, the Treaty of Waitangi and international indigenous issues. He was an advocate and activist for Māori rights.

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When I was growing up I didn’t hear the word ‘colonisation’ very much but I was always aware, I think, of its cold and unrelenting hurt.

Every act of resistance by Māori since 1840 has been met with opposition … Those who take power unjustly defend it with injustice

It was impossible to separate the place of Māori in the prison system from the impact of colonisation, and the disputes around the meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Moana Jackson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.