Famous quotes containing the words american and/or convention:
“Miss U.S.A. is in the same graveyard that [Amanda Jones] the twelve-year-old is. Where the sixteen-year-old is. All the past selves. There comes a time when you have to bury those selves because youve grown into another one.”
—Amanda Theodosia Jones, U.S. beauty contest winner, Miss U.S.A., 1973. As quoted under the pseudonym Emma Wright in American Dreams, Prologue, by Studs Terkel (1980)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
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