ATH: "Our Inherent Democracy" Imam Mohammed(ra) Cincinati 4/6/80

Human rights by virtue of man creation

"Our democracy in these United States comes to birth upon a perception of the human being as a creation with rights that you can’t take away from him. You can’t violate these rights, and that these right belong to each human person that is accepted in the citizenry by virtue of own natural composition. They have these rights simply because they are human. The identity is human. So if the identity is human they are entitled to these rights by virtue of their own identity and composition, not made by man, not made by government, but it is  inherent in the very flesh of every person.

This is the position these great philosophers took and we have this idea holding our political concept together, the belief in inalienable rights of individual human person. Once you accept to be citizen here you have that recognition and those rights not to be taken from you by anybody. And no government, nobody can take those right from any individual human person."  Imam W. D. Mohammed(ra