American Convention

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or convention:

“The novel is, or may be, among the mightiest instruments for swaying the heart and guiding the lives of men.”
—P., U.S. women’s magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 357-9 (August 1828)

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