June Jordan Quotes

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

In England, your life is your life.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

Never do anything that you don't want to do. Listen to your instincts and follow it.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.