Inalienable Rights

Famous quotes containing the words inalienable rights, inalienable and/or rights:

    A separation situation is different for adults than it is for children. When we were very young children, a physical separation was interpreted as a violation of our inalienable rights....As we grew older, the withdrawal of love, whether that meant being misunderstood, mislabeled or slighted, became the separation situation we responded to.
    Roger Gould (20th century)

    Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
    Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
    Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)