Quotes About Autonomy

I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.

Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.