Home > Issues > Race > Petition for One Country, One Law, and One Electoral Roll
	Empowering Men: fighting feminist lies
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

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:

• Terms "Stone Age" and "Prehistoric"

• Stupidity about the word "Indigenous"

• Submission on the wellbeing of Maori children

• Racist Representation on Councils

• Say "No" to Cultures!

• Racist Demonstrators Drown Out White Speaker and Listen to Brown Speaker

• Racist Term "Colonialism"

• Practical Tools to Defeat Apartheid

• Hobson's Pledge

• Orewa Speech - Nationhood