“We travelled the vast Pacific, the science and methodology is hailed by all scholars as one of the greatest feats of mankind. We traversed the Pacific; a quarter of the globe, and discovered so many of these countries and populated them.
We have an achievement that is now generally recognized … our main problem is to sell it to our own people in order for them to regain and rediscover their self-respect … so more than anything else what we need is to promote self-respect amongst our children. Self-respect can only come from a belief and a wanting, a solace, a refuge in what is meaningful to us: our history, our culture, our stories.
My main mission is to make our values and our poetry speak again to us and to our children … and I need help. I need you to engage in this and to carry the torch, so that by the time God says “come up here,” when I go there I’ll have better accounting to the people who are waiting for me than I would have if I’d done nothing”
His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi
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