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Dread
Television (Full Length) – 1996
God is not blonde-haired, blue-eyed. God is brown.
– Auckland Dread member Tigilau Ness, at the start of this documentary
We yearn for peace, we do.
– Dread member Te Hoko Whitu, early in this documentary
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
They are first and foremost part of a whakapapa that we all belong to; they are part of us.
– Ruatoria legal advisor Atareta Poananga
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