Roxane Gay

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

American Writer

George Takei

Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process.

American Actor

Jacques Delors

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

French Economist

Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

American President

Leland Stanford

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

American Businessman

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

Spanish Celebrity

Maria Montessori

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

Italian Educator

Mike Huckabee

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

American Politician

Victoria Woodhull

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

American Activist

Terrence McNally

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.

American Playwright

Inalienable often describes rights you are born with that nobody should violate.

Human Rights

'Inalienable' means something cannot be transferred or relinquished even by the person owning it.

Cannot Transfer

The term is often used in legal or formal texts to discuss rights and freedoms.

Legal Context

 actually read it the phrase that sticks in many of our minds is things about inalienable rights that stage-five right life is great oriented only by our values no other guidance in fact most of the document is written at stage two my life sucks

Tribal leadership -...

 people it is absolutely essential for certain Easter's and those who protect the jungles and the rights of the uncontacted people to be able to prove that they actually hold down and inhabit this land they have an inalienable right

The Unconquered:...

 we have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and I couldn't quite make that fit with what I knew to be my childhood imprisonment. I read history books,