"Nor has any people known to history shown a greater reverence and love for their Christian teachers, or filled the measure of a grateful return more overflowingly. And where else in the world's history is it written that a savage people, pagan for ages, with fixed hereditary customs and beliefs, have made equal progress in civilization and Christianity in the same space of time?"
This sentence is my favorite by far after reading "Hawaii's Story" by Queen Lili'uokalani's because it best expresses her initial reaction to U.S. Imperialism. She possesses the utmost respect for her Hawaiian people as they focus greatly on religion and education and the fact that they are grateful and determined beings, regardless of the fact that they started as "savage" natives and modernized in civilization in the same span of time as other cultures that the United States had been in connection with. Regardless of the demoralizing influences that flooded onto the Hawaiian people, they progressed to save and civilize the masses regardless of foreigners and the ruling class that was overexerting their authority.
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