Hawaii (1966) - Quotes

Desire to Serve, Not to Spy

Keoki Kanakoa: I sought a way to serve my people. Not to spy upon them.

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The Consequences of Colonial Encounter in Hawaii

Keoki Kanakoa: You who have trained for your ministries here at Yale College, and only yesterday received your diplomas, cannot begin to imagine what that can do to the human soul. Even the Reverend Dr. Thorn 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 way with books 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 sent adventurers to steal our lands... pestilence to ravage our countrysides, strong drink to devour the manhood of our sons, and devils in the shape of whalers to despoil our daughters and cast them aside like little wounded animals...to die in torment of that disease for which we had no name until you came. We hunger for the word of God. Yet in the four years I've lived among you, no one yet has said to me, "Keoki Kanakoa, I will go with you to Hawaii to save the souls of your people.

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A Call to Serve and Uplift

Reverend Eliphalet Thorn: You have set forth as one family in Christ. Everything you possess, both now and in the future, belongs to that family. You will receive no salaries, neither will you engage in any enterprise for personal gain. I have no doubt that you would do conspicuously well in business, but you have been called to serve the Lord, and it is to this business that you must attend. You are directed to accomplish two divine missions...to bring the heathen to the Lord and civilize him. You will lift up the heathen, step by step, until he stands with you, and before you leave the scene, the pulpits you erect will be filled by him. You are to spend yourselves in Christ so generously that in later years it may be said of you, "They came to a nation in darkness, they left it in light.

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A Command to Depart from Love

Malama Kanakoa: Hear me, for I speak to Kelolo. Dear brother, dear husband, God commands you to be sent away from me. Sent away to a faraway place. No more shall I sleep in your arms. No more shall you see me again in the sunlight. I have said it.

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Preserving Faith and Cultural Heritage

Malama Kanakoa: My people, it is good that you did not let the church die. When you sleep, God will smile.

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New Laws for Maui in Two Tongues

Malama Kanakoa: This day new laws are made for us of Maui. Because these laws are made for two people, I speak them in our two tongues, English first and then Hawaiian.

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Reflections on Life and Future Conversations

Malama Kanakoa: Many years before I die. Of Kelolo we talk another time.

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Desire for Land and Cultural Tensions

Malama Kanakoa: No land! No like it! Every haole come here want land. You go now. Teach.

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Embracing the Importance of Writing

Malama Kanakoa: Writing? This is good. It is our need. In one month time, I learn plenty writing.

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A Promise for Safety and Escape

Rafer Hoxworth: Jerusha, I promise you. I won't touch you, I won't even look at you. Please, please come onboard my ship. I'll take you and your child to Honolulu and there I'll ship you both to Boston. You'll have an even chance of staying alive there. He'll kill you here, Jerusha. He will kill you.

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The Challenge of Visibility and Struggle

Rafer Hoxworth: You're harder to see than the Empress of China. A man has to fight every inch of the way.

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Regret and Desire in Love's Pursuit

Rafer Hoxworth: I wanted you more than anything else on this Earth. I could have taken you by candlelight in your father's house, and you know that. May the Lord strike me dead if I ever pass up another virgin as long as I live. What a damn fool! What a God-abandoned fool!

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Struggles of Whalers at Sea

Rafer Hoxworth: My men are not sailors, Reverend. They're whalers. and they haven't touched land in eight months. and my men have neither the strength nor the inclination to fight them off, neither, might I add, have I. If you'll excuse me.

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The Futility of Violence and Consent

Rafer Hoxworth: Rape is a rotten sport at any time. But in Lahaina, it's a downright waste of energy. Now get out of here and find yourselves some cooperative ones.

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Commitment and Loyalty in Relationships

Jerusha Bromley: And Ruth said, "Whither thou goest, I will go." Aloha nui.

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The Conflict Between Love and Belief

Jerusha Bromley: It must be terribly hard for her to understand that a form of marriage she's always considered holy, is thought by us to be a deadly sin. I find it sad. Yes, I find it sad that after all these years together, two people should have to stop loving each other in order to love God.

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The Nature of Beauty and Divine Will

Jerusha Bromley: Is it possible for anything to seem lovely without God having wanted it so?

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Reflections on Loss and Legacy in Israel

Jerusha Bromley: There is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel. I looked your name up, too.

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Reflections on Love and Character

Jerusha Bromley: My little sister's remark about a certain captain...I think I should tell you that two years ago I fell in love with a New Bedford man who came here on a visit. He was a whaler, a strong man, somewhat rough in his ways. Yet also gentle. And very handsome.

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Imagining Dreams for a Wishing Doll

Jerusha Bromley: [Singing] Oh, my raggedy, taggedy, little old scraggedy wishing doll. I'd see two fleecy clouds caress, and they become a snow white party dress For my wishing doll. And every rainbow way up there, becomes a silken ribbon for the hair of my wishing doll. And then one day...

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Finding God and Connection in Hawaii

Abner Hale: In this place where I found God, Jerusha Bromley, and Ruth Malama Kanakoa. Beyond that, a man needs no friends.

A Confession of Guilt and Responsibility

Abner Hale: I killed Her. I simply killed Her.

Divine Judgment on Apostasy and Incest

Abner Hale: Now they will see, how God rebukes apostasy and incest. All of them will see, all of them, ALL OF THEM WILL SEE!

A Cry for Divine Retribution

Abner Hale: Oh God, bring them low, punish them! Send them Earthquakes! Plagues! Floods! Pestilence! Destroy them! DESTROY THEM, UTTERLY!

Refusal of Assistance in Hawaii

Abner Hale: You will receive no sustenance from us!

Conflicted Love and Seeking Forgiveness

Abner Hale: Try to forget what I said to you last night. It is blasphemy. I place my love of you above my love of God. I will spend my life seeking its forgiveness.

Reverend Hale's Request for Respectful Address

Abner Hale: I think it would be better Keoki. If from now on you referred to me in the old way, as Reverend Hale.

Consequences of Ignoring Divine Warnings

Abner Hale: God will punish you for that! Perhaps at Cape Horn. We will soon be at the cape. Is it there that the day of reckoning will come for those who refuse to heed God's word? Will tides as high has mountains engulf you and seawater fill your nostrils and your lungs? Will your eyes drop from their sockets at the bottom of the sea?