The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.