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I came to Hawaii in 1959 with statehood, and of course the whole foundation of this multiracial, multicultural, multiethnic society in Hawaii is the aloha spirit, the legacy of the Polynesian pioneers.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about society, spirit

The thing that distinguishes them as Native Hawaiians is that Native Hawaiians were part of their racial and ethnic heritage.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about things

A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water

All Hawaii beaches are open to the public - there's no such thing as a private beach.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about public, things

Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control their own land and their own money? When the land was seen as worthless, nobody gave a damn.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about money

At the same time there's a history in Hawaii of the emergence from pre-feudal separate islands into a kingdom, into a shotgun republic, into an annexed territory, and then into a state.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about history, state, time

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ''Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control? '' ''Well, we have no mechanism to do it, '' I was told.

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In 1920, a couple hundred thousand acres had been set aside called ''Hawaiian homelands. '' The idea was to rehabilitate Hawaiians by letting them homestead on acreage set aside for them.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, idea

In this rainbow society that we have, it became very apparent to me after I entered into an electoral political life that the question of settling the issues on the assets of the Hawaiians is what the Akaka bill is about.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about question, society, life

Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about talking, state, money

There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.

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There's a series of benefits - educational, health, etc. - that benefit Native Hawaiians. The revenues are starting to mount into the millions.

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We made stabs in the legislature to try to relieve the state of both the burden and obligation of administering lands that otherwise were construed as belonging to Native Hawaiians historically.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about burden, state

When I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about water, home, house, state

I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis.

Quote by Minnie Pearl about recollection, experience

When people pay their money, they want to see you. That's the way it was with Elvis. I like to remember him the way he was in Hawaii.

Quote by Minnie Pearl about money, people

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

Quote by Minnie Pearl about police