American Convention

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“I’ve always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it’s because many American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.