Slavery Convention

Famous quotes containing the words slavery and/or convention:

“... no one who has not been an integral part of a slaveholding community, can have any idea of its abominations.... even were slavery no curse to its victims, the exercise of arbitrary power works such fearful ruin upon the hearts of slaveholders, that I should feel impelled to labor and pray for its overthrow with my last energies and latest breath.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

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