Rashida Tlaib Quotes

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

Any nation's right to form a government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.... Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

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.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

How can you have free trade when you don't even have a free government?

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

We are the most cosmopolitan race in the whole universe; but Irishmen should have a country; they have a right to the country of their birth. By the use and aid of one steel – the pen – our committee have taken possession of that right, and as their title one day may be disputed, I trust they will be able and willing to prove it by the aid of another steel – the sword.

The United States supports the idea that every people should have the right to make a free choice as to the kind of government they want.

No country can decide for another county.

Those who won our independence had confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning and communication of ideas to discover and spread political and economic truth

When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.

We're an independent sovereign country and that's very important to Monaco.

Non-violent protests are signs of a healthy democracy, not an ailing one.

I feel like if a dude wants to get his point across and wants to protest, I feel like he has the right to do that.

Self-determination means the political and economic status of Hong Kong should be freely determined by the Hong Kong people.

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

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.