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Neil Abercrombie has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is…
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There are several states where you can get married. But I think I can say without fear of contradiction, 'Paradise awaits.' We'll…
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Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with…
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So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common…
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So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got…
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You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.
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A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease…
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Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
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There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the…
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I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?…
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Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was…
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Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
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The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.
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In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent…
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Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it;…
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Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
— Willard Scott
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I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the…
— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building…
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting…
— Todd Rundgren
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Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was…
— Neil Abercrombie
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The value of one moment of ones pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood.
— Ilkin Santak
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