Quotes
(Movies)
Hawaii
Abner:
"We are taking the land of the people whose souls we came to
save while they are dying... The whole race is dying before our
eyes!"
Rev Quigley: "I'm afraid that is true. But the Lord's ways are
not our ways. And the only answer that I can find is perhaps,
the Lord intends for these islands gradually to pass into other
hands."
Abner" "May God forgive you."
"Even the Reverend Dr Thorne finds it unbelievable that only 43
years ago, when the English Captain Cook arrived in Hawaii, my
brothers stood for the first time face to face with a Christian
world whose existence they had never even dreamt of. We beheld
your weapons, your tall ships, your womenfolks and numbers. And
we could not doubt the greatness of your Christian god. In less
than one generation, we leveled our temples, burnt our pagan
idols and stood like waiting children for the revelation you
promised to send us. But instead of sending God's words, you
send adventurers to steal our lands, pestilence to ravage our
countrysides, strong drink to devour the men... and devils in
the shape of whalers to despoil our daughters... like little
wounded animals... to die in torment of that disease for which
we had no name until you came." - Keoki
Disease,
despair, our lack of love, our inability to find them beautiful,
our contempt for their ways, our lust for their land, our greed,
our arrogance. That is what kills them, Abner.
When Captain Cook discovered these islands fifty years ago they were
a true Paradise. Infectious disease was unknown. They didn't catch
cold. There were four hundred thousand of them, now they are less
than a hundred and fifty thousand.
"If only I had a chance to save it."
"You had that chance."
"I mean its soul."
"I mean the child."
