Achieve Quote by Norman Finkelstein

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

— Judith Butler

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

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

— Jalal Talabani

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

— Anonymous

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

Of course one always has to follow international law. This was also the case in Crimea. According to the Charter of the United Nations,…

— Vladimir Putin

There are two kinds of people who fight for their country's independence. Those who know their people's strengths and weakness and those who don't.

— Mahesh Srinivasan

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

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

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.

— Mike Huckabee

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