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  1. Oct 2022
  2. Sep 2022
  3. May 2022
    1. It is for them that I would give the last drop of my blood; it is for them that I would spend, nay, am spending, everything belonging to me.

      this quote just yeah

    2. have no right to disclose any secrets given in trust to me.

      evidence for both protest against annexation and her respect of her people and their safety

    3. I told them that if the mass of the native people chose to rise, and try to throw off the yoke, I would say nothing against it, but I could not approve of mere rioting.

      reminds me of her comment describing hawaiisn as not tending to riot (after queen emma lost)

  4. Apr 2022
    1. and these representative bodies of my own nation prayed me to undertake certain measures for the general good of Hawaii.

      even after dethroned she still worked for the good of her people

    2. my judgment should dictate for the good of the Hawaiians, to whom the Creator gave those beautiful islands in the Pacific

      ironically her religion is tied to her firm judging against "white hawaiians"

    3. Perhaps it was because I had gone hand in hand with them in all good works that they thought I would cast in my lot with them now for evil

      quote this

    4. until he became imbued with Dr. Hyde's own prejudices against the native people of the Hawaiian Islands and against their queen.

      bias against hawaii

    5. d. And yet, all this time, by Mr. Willis's own words, I was recognized by the United States as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.

      thisss

    6. It was true that I was always an active member of all the associated plans for carrying on missionary works, and was never appealed to in vain by the missionaries to give money or sympathy to all that was to be done in the name of Christianity.

      she's a christian but not a bloody colonizer sympathizer

    7. The British government has long since adopted license instead of prohibition, and the statute proposed among the final acts of my government was drawn from one in use in the British colonies; yet I have still to learn that there has been any proposition on the part of the pious people of London to dethrone Her Majesty Queen Victoria for issuing such licenses.

      double standard

    8. I am simply explaining what this bill intended, because, by the reports sent to their correspondents in the United States, the missionary party represented me as a grand vender of lottery tickets, by which I was to become rich and powerful; whereas the scheme, be it good or bad, would not have been to my individual profit, but to that of my native people.

      how she was misrepresented

    9. the missionary party have had the impudence to announce to the world that I was unworthy longer to rule, because on my sole will and wish I had proposed to overthrow "the constitution."

      damn

    10. Yet this is exactly what the quasi Americans, who call themselves Hawaiians now and Americans when it suits them, claimed the right to do at Honolulu.

      SNAPS

    11. It should, however, be only necessary to remember that the measures which brought about our accession of wealth were not at all in line with a policy of annexation to the United States, which was the very essence of the dominant "missionary" idea.

      her brother's rule was a golden age but it's problematic to credit the missionaries

    12. Even had there been a disturbance, no one but the government could have authorized the employment of alien troops.

      contradiction of common belief around US minister Pierce

    13. There was a very strong feeling of friendship between the king and the late General U. S. Grant. It amounted almost to recognized fraternity.

      example of a /pos relationship

  5. Mar 2022
  6. Sep 2020
    1. Immoral in USA

      Can we stop acting as if the US is so much more "civilized" than other places? We do all of these with little remorse from the conservative portion of our country, except for the killing of newborns just for their gender (though we do kill newborns by way of our god awful 'health care' and wealth inequities.