Unalienable Rights

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

    Nothing ... is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    Nothing ... is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    ... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.
    Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 8 (1962)