United Nations Convention

Famous quotes containing the words united nations, united, nations and/or convention:

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

    ... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freest country on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)