We should not allow ourselves, individually or our ethnic communities to become easy tools for politics of race that will continue to segregate us me… - Epeli Ganilau

Race is a fact of life and is not a problem unless people make it out to be so. (2003)

We cannot afford to ignore HIV/AIDS. We can only ignore this battle at the cost of being regarded by future generations of Pacific Islanders as lacking the will, the foresight, the understanding to tackle this issue, which threatens our very future.

Whether some people like it or not, Fiji is already a multiracial society. We have different races, but that does not mean we should only work for the good of our own race. We have to truly understand one another, learn each other’s languages, and truly work together. There is huge potential in Fiji, and we would be amazed to see what we will achieve, if we work together.