Absolutes Quote by Mengistu Haile Mariam

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

— Woodrow Wilson

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

— Jalal Talabani

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…

— Jasper Fforde

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

— Judith Butler

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to…

— Janet Mock

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun,…

— Herbert Marcuse

The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling against a…

— Richard A. Falk

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future…

— John F. Kennedy

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather…

— June Jordan

“Social self-determination does not and cannot exist in a capitalist society: capital, in all its forms, is the negation of self-determination.”

— John Holloway

“Self-determination's a great ability until it's directed against you.”

— C.D. Reiss