American Convention

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“The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service populace, and all our specious comforts—the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria—are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

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