Sir James Henare- the language is the core of our Māori culture and mana. If the language dies as some predict what do we have left to us?
Then I ask our own people, who are we?
Our Māori language, as far as our people are concerned, is the very soul of the Māori people. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but suffer the loss of his own soul?
Even if we gain the world, to be monolingual, a Japanese once said, is to know only one universe.
Ka tau ka pai.
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