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  • I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

    "Remembering Rosa Parks". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 24, 2005.
  • Control your own destiny or someone else will.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes".
  • Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

  • America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

    Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.
  • I'd rather die my way than live yours.

  • Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

  • You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

    Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.22, Penguin
  • In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.

    "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.
  • The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  • Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

    Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”
  • The best way out is always through.

    North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"
  • Of course one always has to follow international law. This was also the case in Crimea. According to the Charter of the United Nations, every people has the right to self-determination.

    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

    Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
  • It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

    "Conservative 'Young Guns' Offer Views on America's Future". A Roundtable Discussion, www.today.com. September 14, 2010.
  • Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

  • When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

    Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.
  • Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now.

  • All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash.

    Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”
  • In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.

  • Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

    Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”
  • All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

  • They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

    "Fictional character: Mohandas K. Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.
  • I'm asking : if the Kosovars have the right to self-determination, why should people on Crimea not have it? I would say: everyone should comply with uniform international rules and not want to change them any time one feels like it.

    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

  • The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.

  • Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.

    Source: www.progressive.org
  • If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.

  • I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

    Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
  • I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

  • Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.

    Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.
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