Dad taught me that there is dignity in humility and that dignity is the most fundamental of all rights. He taught me that a change of opinion isn't a sign of intellectual weakness, and how to make peace from conflict. It's his skill of practical peacemaking that I want to bring to my politics: a practical peacefulness for which my tupuna, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki, came to learn in his age. Te Kooti's story is documented in a book, Encircled Lands by Judith Binney, which I read at law school. Te Kooti was falsely imprisoned twice and kept from his land. But despite all that, he saw the law as the most powerful tool for change and something which could be a shelter for those oppressed: "Ka kuhu au ki te ture hei matua mō te pani." ["I seek refuge in the law as a parent for the orphaned."]