Self Determination Quotes - Page 5

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

  Judith Butler

  Determination, Self, People

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Everyone wants dignity. And today the mission of HOPE is ‘silver rights,’or making the free enterprise system work for the least of these God’s children, and why we believe that the new definition of freedom today is self-determination.

  John Hope Bryant

  Determination, Self, Definitions

  "Defining Financial Literacy in a New Economic Age" by John Hope Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2013.

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• Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.

  John Hope Bryant

  Education, Money, Determination

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• 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.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Determination, Rights, Self

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights norms is a restraint on interventionary diplomacy, especially if coupled with respect for the legal norm of self-determination. But on another level, the protection of human rights creates a pretext for intervention as given approval by the UN Security Council in the form of the R2P (responsibility to protect) norm, as used in the 2011 Libyan intervention. The same applies with international criminal accountability.

  Richard A. Falk

  Determination, Responsibility, Self

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Determination, Self, Socialism

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• 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.

  William Ellery Channing

  Determination, Lying, Self

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• Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

  Garry Kasparov

  Determination, Self, Moscow

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

  Nick Saban

  Determination, Attitude, Successful

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• I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Determination, Self, Law

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• 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.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think Hamas should be challenged to consider really embracing Gandhi and Dr. Kings philosophy of advocating nonviolence as a way to achieve self determination, end occupation, achieve unity within their country, and gain allies within Israel. I think this idea of an eye for and eye, a rocket for a bomb, will never bring about peace for either side.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Determination, Kings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The far right is saying to us: Forget about the two-state solution, it is going to be a Jewish state from the coast to Jordan. The left wing says you have to forget about Jewish self-determination, you will have to live as a minority in an Arab state - just like the whites in South Africa. The key word that both have in mind is that the situation in the West Bank is "irrevocable." It is one of the words I dislike the most.

  Amos Oz

  Determination, Keys, Self

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Recently with IS and Islamist fanaticism, it has become easy for the Israeli government to simply push the Palestinian struggle for self-determination into the same ranks as these fundamentalist movements.

  Amos Oz

  Determination, Struggle, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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 West-centric world order. Latin American countries used international law creatively, both to limit the protection of foreign investment by establishing the primacy of national sovereignty in relation to natural resources, and by building support for the norm on non-intervention in internal affairs.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Determination

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

  Vladimir Putin

  Determination, Integrity, Self

  Interview with Matthew Chance, edition.cnn.com. August 29, 2008.

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• I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determination, Military, War

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• But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Self Esteem, Independence, Retiring

  "Meditations".

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• you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Being Yourself, Novelists, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fighting, Use, Eragon

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.489, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Self Esteem, Done, Confidence Boosting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Husband, Blessing

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.525, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

  Clint Eastwood

  Hate, Lying, Opposites

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• You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

  John Green

  Romantic, Hurt, Determination

  "The Fault in our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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