Minor correction: It was not Warren Burger but Earl Warren who in the 1958 Perez v. Brownell wrote, "“citizenship is man’s basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights. Remove this priceless possession and there remains a stateless person, disgraced and degraded in the eyes of his countrymen. He has no lawful claim to protection from any nation, and no nation may assert rights on his behalf." http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/356/44.html This itself is a sentiment carrying on from Hannah Arendt, who writing in The Origin of Totalitarianism makes the same point that statelessness is essentially the denial of the right to have rights.
Minor correction: It was not Warren Burger but Earl Warren who in the 1958 Perez v. Brownell wrote, "“citizenship is man’s basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights. Remove this priceless possession and there remains a stateless person, disgraced and degraded in the eyes of his countrymen. He has no lawful claim to protection from any nation, and no nation may assert rights on his behalf." http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/356/44.html This itself is a sentiment carrying on from Hannah Arendt, who writing in The Origin of Totalitarianism makes the same point that statelessness is essentially the denial of the right to have rights.