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Dread
Television (Full Length) – 1996
I aroha to them. It was not their fault that they had strayed because of the conditioning. Colonisation.– Kaumatua Nanny Gaga on Dread members who have spent time in prison
In order to have kotahitanga, everyone must partake. You can’t have people sitting on the fence...– Dread member Te Hoko Whitu
...when we use the herb it brings us to a point of reason…where we're not yelling and screaming and we're not fighting, but we can sit down and we can talk.– Dread member Power Of The Trinity
God is not blonde-haired, blue-eyed. God is brown.– Auckland Dread member Tigilau Ness, at the start of this documentary
They are first and foremost part of a whakapapa that we all belong to; they are part of us.– Ruatoria legal advisor Atareta Poananga
We yearn for peace, we do.– Dread member Te Hoko Whitu, early in this documentary
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