Did you know!
That Te Whiti told his people during the Taranaki land wars . . . “Although some of you in the darkness of your hearts, seeing your land taken from you, might wish to take up arms and kill the agressors 1 say unto you it must not he ... 1 do not want war, but the Pakehas want war. The flashes of their guns have singed our eyelashes, and they say they do not want war . . . Referring to me what do they say? They say 1 am a fanatic, a fool, and a madman; but 1 am neither. The land is yours, but what 1 have seen lately is mough to turn the brains within my head into the brains of a fanatic. Still we must cause no more trouble to come upon the land by any action of our own.”
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Mana (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 5, 1 September 1977, Page 3
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140Did you know! Mana (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 5, 1 September 1977, Page 3
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