[rayiner]

> People deserve to have self-determination now

Sentences in passive voice always obscure the true meaning. For example when people say “everyone deserves healthcare” that means “taxpayers should pay for other people to have healthcare.” So what do you mean in this context, expressed as an active voice sentence?

[cafard]

The sentence you quote is in the active voice.

[rayiner]

It’s quasi-passive voice—a sentence grammatically in the active voice but where the subject is purely passive. Such as “honey is sweet” is really an assertion about what happens when a person tastes honey.

The “people” here are purely passive; the sentence is an assertion about what an implicit actor should or should not do with respect to people.