Self-determination Quotes - page 3

[Self-determination] is one of the fundamental principles of democracy, the ability to rule yourself. They don't want to give us that. We are not free. We have everything a nation needs, except a land to call our own. (Eugène Terre'Blanche)
Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope, and therefore what might be described as "solidarity". View quote
David Blunkett
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination. View quote
David Blunkett
Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected. View quote
Peter Camejo
Self-determination is now recognized as a principle of legitimacy underlying modern international law. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
Self-determination is an expression of the individual and collective right to democracy. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
Democracy and self-determination serve the overall goal of enabling human security and human rights. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
There are multiple ways of looking at self-determination. One understanding of the right focuses on the legitimacy of choice, so that every people may choose the form of government that it deems appropriate to its culture and traditions. Another perspective focuses on the right of two or more peoples to unify into one single State. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
Neither the right of self-determination nor the principle of territorial integrity is absolute. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
In its essence, the right of self-determination means that individuals and peoples should be in control of their destinies and should be able to live out their identities, whether within the boundaries of existing States or through independence. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
There is consensus among States, judges of international tribunals and professors of international law that self-determination is not only a principle but also a right that has achieved the status of jus cogens. (Alfred de Zayas)
All peoples have the right of self-determination. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
A violation of the right of self-determination gives rise to a legitimate human rights claim by individuals and groups and triggers State responsibility to make reparation. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
The bearers of the right of self-determination possess justiciable rights, not mere promises. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
The right of self-determination must be implemented through specific measures. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
QUESTION: A well-known saying of yours asserts that 'Every man is an artist.' If every man is an artist, then why have art academies and art professors at all? BEUYS: To be sure, 'every man is an artist' in a general sense: one must be an artist for example, to create self-determination. But at a certain stage in his life every man becomes a specialist in a certain way; one studies chemistry, another sculpture or painting, a third becomes doctor, and so on. For this reason we understandably need special schools. View quote
Joseph Beuys
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence. View quote
Norman Finkelstein
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. View quote
Edward Said
Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination. View quote
Judith Butler
We have to distinguish between riots and revolts.... Riots are illegal. A revolt is legitimate because it is what people must do to express self-defense, self-determination, and self-direction. View quote
Maulana Karenga
Kwanzaa was conceived, created and introduced to the African community as an audacious act of self-determination. (Maulana Karenga)
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment. View quote
Jesse Jackson
There shall be no annexations, no contributions, no punitive damage. Peoples are not to be handed about from one sovereignty to another by an international conference or an understanding between rivals and antagonists. National aspirations must be respected; peoples may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent. "Self-determination" is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples. Either God is identified with the oppressed to the point that their experience becomes God's experience, or God is a God of racism. ... The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God's own condition. This is the essence of the Biblical revelation. By electing Israelite slaves as the people of God and by becoming the Oppressed One in Jesus Christ, the human race is made to understand that God is known where human beings experience humiliation and suffering...Liberation is not an afterthought, but the very essence of divine activity. View quote
James Hal Cone
Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. View quote
Rita Dove