John Peters Humphrey, OC (April 30, 1905 – March 14, 1995) was a Canadian legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate. He is most famous as the author of the first draft of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
Read more about John Peters Humphrey: Childhood, Education and Academic Career, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Career in The United Nations, Later Life, Honours and Recognition, Bibliography
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“Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
—Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 22:20.
from the penultimate verse in the New Testament; the last is: “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”
“The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)