Definition of Self-Determination

Self-determination

Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.

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Self-Determination Quotations

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy

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 needs to do.
Ani DiFranco

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
Jalal Talabani

In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.
Dick Thornburgh

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.
Dick Thornburgh

Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
Dick Thornburgh

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.
Amir Butler

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

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.
Eliot Engel

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
Karl Liebknecht

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
Peter Camejo

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