Slavery Convention

Famous quotes containing the words slavery and/or convention:

“I remember the almost daily talks of my mother on the cruelty of slavery. I would say nothing to her, but I was thinking all the time that slavery did not seem so cruel. Master and Mistress Jennings were not mean to my mother. It was she who was mean to them.”
—Cornelia (1844–?)

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