If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors. Mau Piailug More Quotes by Mau Piailug More Quotes From Mau Piailug I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia. Mau Piailug teaching men two To be a navigator, you have to be fierce. Mau Piailug navigators fierce To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember. Mau Piailug be-brave brave remember