Self determination Quotes

Zionism, like other self-determination movements...

— Ruth Wisse

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Let every man be master of his time.

— William Shakespeare

“You ought to conquer the obstacle to achieve the goal.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

— Lauren Oliver

“Do not quit. Hang on the wings of hope.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Each day, write a thankful note.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

— Nora Ephron

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

— Joseph Lowery

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

— William Shakespeare

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

— Chris Evert

“Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“One by one, they pushed ahead to get a swipe at Ruth, her only ally the narrow confines of the bus aisle.”

— Elizabeth Garden

Financially supporting the self determination of democracies keeps the U.S. safer and protects the rest of the world.

— Jasmine Crockett

We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

— Marine Le Pen

“The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.”

— Alexandra Stoddard

Every president since Nixon has embraced a policy of 'self-determination without termination' - the idea that Native Americans are best equipped to…

— Tom Perez

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Snipers learn to silence the chaos of their thoughts until only the target and the shot exist. In that silence lies mastery,…

— David Amerland

“The socialist submerging of the individual under the collective’s prerogative is a perverse and putrid vision for humanity.”

— A.E. Samaan

The twin causes Bin Laden invokes are Islam and Arab self-determination, and armies rise to serve him. No need to convert or…

— Norah Vincent

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls…

— Jonathan Haidt

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she…

— Ani DiFranco

“Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence…

— Emily Thorne

“What unified the Balochis in their quest to regain self-determination, which resulted in the ‘existing state’? On the one hand, authoritarianism, militarization,…

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed…

— Eavan Boland

The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because…

— Assata Shakur

In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes…

— Bell Hooks

When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the…

— Khaled Mashal

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent.…

— David Blunkett

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that…

— Sharon Maas

“Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights…

— Richard A. Falk

“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir…

— Virginia Woolf

“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that…

— Robert K. Massie

“Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still…

— Agnes Chew

“It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman…

— Antonia Fraser

“With regard to complex trauma survivors, self-determination and autonomy require that the therapist treat each client as the "authority" in determining the…

— Christine A. Courtois

In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but…

— Anonymous