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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
Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
Peter Camejo
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
Jalal Talabani
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
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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 
56% of people like this quote
Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
Peter Camejo
54% of people like this quote
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
53% of people like this quote
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
Jalal Talabani
53% of people like this quote
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
52% of people like this quote
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy
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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
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The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
Jalal Talabani
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I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.
Eliot Engel
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
Karl Liebknecht
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