American Convention

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“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

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