"Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities"

      I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life, whatever God blesses me with.  Enjoying life for me is just normal.  I think I have to work with people.  The common denominator of everything can't be money, and it should not be money.  Equal rights and opportunities is a huge piece for me.  You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself.  Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people.  Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's rights and opportunities in equality.  After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

     Most people struggle with life balance simple because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them is their rights and opportunities as human beings.  Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.  People who grow rich almost always improve their life.  More people want to have friends with them.  That's just the way human beings work now.  Money is power with them.  Power is an aphrodisiac.  Money did not make me happy.  But it definitely improved my life.  The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.  My passionate sense of equal rights and equal opportunities has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

     I think this feeling that I have for people and the importance of behaving in a way which is respectful to people of all colors, shapes, sizes and religions goes back a very long way, possibly to my mother and father in very early stages of childhood.  We must respect each others right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for indigenous and non-indigenous peoples so that we may enjoy the rights to maintain our culture, our heritage and our land, as a united country.  The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with non-indigenous people.  One that respects the land and the heritage of its indigenous peoples and provides justice and equity for all.  I think reconciliation is about changing the structures that govern us and trying to influence opinion leaders in whatever way we can.