Petition for One Country, One Law, and One Electoral Roll - New Zealand Equality Education Foundation

New Zealand Equality Education Foundation

(incorporating the International Ex-Fetus Association)

Petition for One Country, One Law, and One Electoral Roll

The words printed below were written in 1883 in Washington D.C. by Frederick Douglass, as Negro born into slavery in 1817. He escaped in 1838 and stayed in England for a time. Friends there bought his freedom. He returned to America and became a great reformer, lecturer and writer -- and a major force for abolition and equal rights for all people in America.

"In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of human family, there should be, before the law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship, equal rights and a comon destiny for all."

His words are as true today as they were then.

Therefore, to the Members of the House of Representatives of New Zealand in Parliament,

we the undersigned request

THE ABOLITION OF SEPARATE ELECTORAL ROLLS

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Please return to: "Kiwi Campaign", P.O. Box 962, Whangarei. Ph: 025 289 2332 Email: oneroll@hotmail.com

Please print out this petition and send it, when complete, to the above address.

Disclaimer: This petition is not being organised by the NZ Equality Education Foundation or any of its current members, but it is endorsed by the NZ Equality Education Foundation.

See also: Practical Tools to Defeat Apartheid

and

Orewa Speech - Nationhood

Last Update: 27 February 2005