I often feel I'm engaged in a never-ending battle for autonomy.
Mr. Motzfeldt started his battle for autonomy in the mid-1950s with a group of young Inuit activists.
As the US embarked on a decades-long attempt at destabilisation, Castro's fight for survival became synonymous with his country's battle for autonomy.
But each group's battle for autonomy and acceptance is also a sign that, beneath all that distracting skin pigment, we belong to the same species.
Paka Lue Song, only a 15-minute drive from the provincial capital of Pattani, is ground zero for Thailand's "surge" of troops into its troubled southern provinces, where ethnic Malay Muslims are battling for autonomy from Thailand's Buddhist majority.
The country is now embroiled in a bloody civil war, with regional overtones.Guinea-Bissau's neighbours, Senegal and Guinea, have together sent some 2,000 troops to help President Vieira put down a rebellion by Brigadier Ansumane Mane, the army chief who was sacked on suspicion of smuggling arms to rebels battling for autonomy in Senegal's southern province of Casamance.
Paka Lue Song, only a 15-minute drive from the provincial capital, Pattani, is a starting point for Thailand's influx of troops into the country's troubled southern provinces, where ethnic Malay Muslims are battling for autonomy from Thailand's Buddhist majority.
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At the heart of Roots lies a battle for individual autonomy, against slave owners, and then against an America intent on marginalising black people.
She writes: "The first forty-something years of my life were spent as a warrior, pioneering the cause of... women's rights, black athletes' rights, not to mention my own battle for intense autonomy".
