United Nations Convention

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

“The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusetts is one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

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