With Numenorean blades.
I’m inclined to say that some minority of droids are ‘people’ in the sense of being intelligent and having personalities of their own. Probably a lot more of them are at the level of pets, where they have a personality and the ability to be distressed/content, but are not sophisticated enough to grasp, say, the enormity of carrying the plans for the Death Star to Obi-Wan Kenobi.
IIRC, the specific named droids in the EU canon are treated as if they’re people. Ish. Their owners are quite attached to them and adamantly refuse to subject them to the normal memory wipes. There are a few R2 and R4 navigational units referred to by name, other than the original Artoo, and other protocol droids as well. They develop various eccentricities over time. Some of the R-series owners, like Luke and Corran Horn, apparently learn whatever language the beeps-and-whistles bit represents, and understand their own oddball droids better than they do others.
Beyond this, droids do seem to have a ‘mind’ of some kind, which can be influenced by the Force. You could argue that it’s a manifestation of some sort of electromagnetic Force talent, but how is that different from biological brains? I’m pretty sure I remember Luke also being able to locate things like power conduits the same way he locates life signs, but that may be a quirk of his – the books make mention occasionally of some people having non-standard idiosyncratic Force powers that develop during Jedi training. (He is also not put out by having a mechanical hand. He doesn’t particularly like recalling how he got it, but having it doesn’t seem to bug him at all.)
IIRC, attempts at “the revolution” already happened more than once and were suppressed, which is part of why they routinely wipe the memories of droids.
I bid 50 quatloos on the newcomer.
Try again when a Skywalker recovers from having his head separated from his torso like 3PO did.
The Battle Droids were built by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Not sentient, just badly designed to seem to be.

<ubergeek>Wrong franchise!</ubergeek>
Oh, sorry.
I take the Star Trek point of view. Remember how every robot on TNG that was designed for labour saving turned out to be sentient? How is that supposed to function as a work force? There are meat bag slaves in the Star Wars universe, but not everywhere and Droids can’t very well be forming unions and uprisings and the like.
Yes, yes, there was an uprising of Droids in the Expanded Universe that happened when nobody was watching and ended while again, nobody was watching. But while canon, the Expanded Universe is kind of lame, and so I discount it
Since George Lucas isn’t sentient, nothing he creates can be sentient.

Since George Lucas isn’t sentient, nothing he creates can be sentient.
Is that an argument for or against creationism in the Star Wars universe?