Quotes About Independence

In the past, I have played the roles of subdued, self-sacrificing women. But we need to show our women as bolder individuals. I know this will happen.

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment.

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

A woman is subject matter enough.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

An America disarmed is an America in subjugation.

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

I don't see myself playing the docile, submissive bahu on television!

I don't want to have to kneel down to my husband, I don't want to be submissive.

When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

People want women to be so submissive when we got a voice of our own, and we can do everything these dudes can do.

Ladies, you do not have to submit yourself to any man abusing you.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

I consider that France does not have to submit to the calendar of the United States, so I want France to leave the integrated command of NATO.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.