Linda Sarsour Quotes

There is no nation on the earth that wants, for its security, to depend on anybody else.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

I am definitely not under British protection. I have to protect myself. I am not M.I.6. I am not C.I.A. I am not anything.

True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

We will implement what we want. What we do not want, no one can impose on us

Scots are very capable of making up their mind without my tuppence worth.

The country doesn't need saving.

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell us what they want to tell us.

We can be a free and independent country and will prosper if given a proper chance.

My father would always say Kashmiris have made so much sacrifice to achieve something more, but we have a constitution, special status and a flag, and our foremost duty is to protect what we have.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country."

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

The power even to refuse a good ... confers unspeakable satisfaction, and is essential to freedom. Even the simple consciousness in the bosom of a freeman, that he is absolutely one—that he is the untrammeled artificer of his own destiny, is in its very self a fund of happiness, richer, purer, and more precious than could be purchased by all the wealth in the world.

This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

Our colonies are great and growing nationalities.

All these nations and peoples of Europe and Asia will insist upon their independence and their own cultures.

It's time to bring dignity, honor, self-reliance, and self-government to people that have been held, not necessarily in bondage, but certainly as supplicants under an Indian Act that is archaic.

Every nation, civilized or primitive, sees its land as its national home, where it wants to be the sole landlord forever. Such a nation will never willingly consent to new landlords or even to partnership.

They [Americans] were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created, people in the history of the world.

You want independence. Go ahead. You are not worth Russian blood or money.

We [the French] have to keep defending our vital interests …, we can say no, alone, to anything that may be unacceptable.