In a speech to the Fiji Institute of Accountants on 28 April 2005, Ganilau called for a sense of national unity to be built by an emphasis on common values, shared by Indo-Fijians as well as indigenous Fijians. These values should, he said, include a vision of the kind of society Fiji should be – ""a Fiji where people of different ethnicities, religions and cultures can live and work together for the good of all, can differ without rancour, govern without violence and accept responsibility as reasonable people intent on serving the best interest of all"." He called racism ""a primary force of evil designed to destroy good men,"" and asked all Fijian citizens to learn from the past to build a better future. ""I would like to make the point that we cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it,"" Ganilau said.