Quotes About Independence

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

I watched my mom suffer from a divorce where she depended on my father.

I suffered years of criticism. But there was a point in my life where I had to stand up and say: 'I don't care what anybody says about me. I have to stand up for my family, for the four children I had with Bob and the eight he had with other women.'

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

Sindhis have a rich heritage, but they suffered massively during the Partition.

Nobody in the Indian subcontinent has suffered or struggled more than Kashmiris.

An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

I came out of UCB and, before that, punk rock, and the whole deal was you do it yourself. Get up and rent the space, get up and press your own records, get up and silkscreen your own tees, get it done yourself. That sort of self-reliance will only serve me. Any time I lose sight of that, my career suffers.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

I don't look at my work as an avenue for generating more work. For me, my work itself is sufficient.

On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I had become my own Greek, suffocating mother. She said, 'Just think, in 13 years they'll leave us and go to college!' And I went, 'Gulp.'

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.

I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.

Over the years, I've consciously not done films that in any way suggest that women are subservient to men.

Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur. You're looking for an audience to identify with you. Rather than trying to convince a majority of the electorate, you're looking to cull your particular following.

I'm someone who doesn't often ask for help, just suggestions.