"Every people has a right to choose..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
More by Woodrow Wilson
“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”
“There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.”
“Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.”
More on Rights
“Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.”
“The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.”
“Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.”
More on Self Determination
“The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.”
“We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.”
“For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.”